Study Status: Active, not recruiting
Recruit Status: Active, not recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: A Multicenter Prospective National Cohort Study for Patients With Advanced Rectal Cancer - is it Possible to Induce Remission and Avoid Surgery - Watch and Wait?
Brief Summary: A national cohort study with all patients scheduled for neoadjuvant treatment with (chemo)radiotherapy or short course radiotherapy with delayed surgery 6-8 weeks) for rectal cancer staged as cT4bNX/anycTanycN and cMRF+/anycTanycN and lateral lymph nodes on MRI (and patients that have been offered short course raditotherapy with delayed surgery due to various reasons). The tumours are positioned midrectal or low and are palpable with the finger. The patients offered this treatment after recommendations on their local multidisciplinary tumour board will be will be informed and offered to participate in the study. Patients scheduled for short course radiotherapy with immediate surgery cannot be included.