Postoperative Adjuvant Chemotherapy Use in Patients With Stage II/III Rectal Cancer Treated With Neoadjuvant Therapy: A National Comprehensive Cancer Network Analysis

Abstract

Even at specialty cancer centers, a sizeable minority of patients with rectal cancer treated with curative-intent neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy do not complete postoperative chemotherapy. Strategies to facilitate the ability to complete this third and final component of curative intent treatment are necessary.