Neoadjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer: Adherence to evidence-based guidelines in clinical practice

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 639-645

  Fitzgerald, Timothy L ^a   Biswas, Tithe ^a   O'Brien, Kevin ^b   Zervos, Emmanuel E ^a   Wong, Jan H ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COLON RESECTION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEER PROGRAM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874116288     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1862-z     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Haynes B, Haines A (1998) Barriers and bridges to evidence based clinical practice. BMJ 317:273-276
2. Heffner JE (2000) The overarching challenge. Chest 118:1S-3S
3. Hewitt M, Simone JV (eds) (1999) Ensuring quality cancer care. National Academy Press, Washington, DC
4. Elferink MA, Krijnen P, Wouters MW et al (2010) Variation in treatment and outcome of patients with rectal cancer by region, hospital type and volume in The Netherlands. Eur J Surg Oncol 36(Suppl 1):74-82
5. Jullumstro E, Wibe A, Lydersen S et al (2012) Violation of treatment guidelines: hazard for rectal cancer patients. Int J Colorectal Dis 27:103-109
6. Anonymous (1990) Adjuvant therapy for patients with colon and rectal cancer: National Institutes of Health. Conn Med 54:573-581
7. Hay JM, Msika S (2000) Radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer of the rectum. J Chir (Paris) 137:13-15
8. Kuo I, Wong JH, Roy-Chowdhury S et al (2010) The use of pelvic radiation in stage II rectal cancer: a population-based analysis. Am Surg 76:1092-1095
9. Roos M, Wong JH, Roy-Chowdhury S et al (2010) The impact of multidisciplinary therapy in node-positive rectal cancer. Am Surg 76:1163-1166
10. Fitzgerald TL, Brinkley J, Zervos EE (2011) Pushing the envelope beyond a centimeter in rectal cancer: oncologic implications of close, but negative margins. J Am Coll Surg 213:589-595
11. Madoff RD (2004) Chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer: when, why, and how? N Engl J Med 351:1790-1792
12. Sauer R, Becker H, Hohenberger W et al (2004) Preoperative versus postoperative chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer. N Engl J Med 351:1731-1740
13. Valentini V, Coco C, Gambacorta MA et al (2010) Evidence and research perspectives for surgeons in the European Rectal Cancer Consensus Conference (EURECA-CC2). Acta Chir Iugosl 57:9-16
14. Engstrom PF, Arnoletti JP, Benson AB 3rd et al (2009) NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: rectal cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 7:838-881
15. Edge SB, Byrd DR, Compton CC et al (eds) (2010) AJCC cancer staging handbook. Springer, New York
16. Shiffman RN, Dixon J, Brandt C et al (2005) The GuideLine Implementability Appraisal (GLIA): development of an instrument to identify obstacles to guideline implementation. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 5:23
17. Jessup JM, Stewart A, Greene FL et al (2005) Adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer: implications of race/ethnicity, age, and differentiation. JAMA 294:2703-2711
18. Sheldon TA, Guyatt GH, Haines A (1998) Getting research findings into practice: when to act on the evidence. BMJ 317:139-142
19. Heffner JE (2000) The overarching challenge. Chest 118:1S-3S
20. Anonymous (1997) Improved survival with preoperative radiotherapy in resectable rectal cancer: Swedish rectal cancer trial. N Engl J Med 336:980-987
21. Kapiteijn E, Marijnen CAM, Nagtegaal ID et al (2001) Preoperative radiotherapy combined with total mesorectal excision for resectable rectal cancer. N Engl J Med 345:638-646
22. Bosset JF, Collette L, Calais G et al (2006) Chemotherapy with preoperative radiotherapy in rectal cancer. N Engl J Med 355:1114-1123
23. Valentini V, Glimelius B (2010) Rectal cancer radiotherapy: towards European consensus. Acta Oncol 49:1206-1216
24. Glimelius B, Pahlman L, Cervantes (2010) A rectal cancer: ESMO clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Ann Oncol 21(Suppl 5):v82-v86
25. Wong RK, Berry S, Spithoff K et al (2010) Preoperative or postoperative therapy for stage II or III rectal cancer: an updated practice guideline. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 22:265-271
26. Eldin NS, Yasui Y, Scarfe A et al (2012) Adherence to treatment guidelines in stage II/III rectal cancer in Alberta, Canada. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 24:e9-e17
27. Srinivasaiah N, Joseph B, Mackey P et al (2008) How do we manage early rectal cancer? A national questionnaire survey among members of the ACPGBI after the preliminary results of the MRC CR07/NCIC CO16 randomized trial. Colorectal Dis 10:357-362
28. Ooi K, Frizelle F, Ong E et al (2011) Current practice in preoperative therapy and surgical management of locally advanced rectal cancer: a bi-national survey. Colorectal Dis 14:814-820
29. Jullumstro E, Wibe A, Lydersen S et al (2012) Violation of treatment guidelines: hazard for rectal cancer patients. Int J Colorectal Dis 27:103-109
30. Eldin NS, Yasui Y, Scarfe A et al (2012) Adherence to treatment guidelines in stage II/III rectal cancer in Alberta, Canada. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 24:e9-e17
31. Manchon-Walsh P, Borras JM, Espinas JA et al (2011) Variability in the quality of rectal cancer care in public hospitals in Catalonia (Spain): clinical audit as a basis for action. Eur J Surg Oncol 37:325-333
32. Boyle E, Timmons A, Al-Akash M et al (2011) The management of rectal cancer in Ireland in 2007 - room for improvement? Surgeon 9:179-186
33. Jobsen JJ, Aarts MJ, Siesling S et al (2012) Use of primary radiotherapy for rectal cancer in The Netherlands between 1997 and 2008: a population-based study. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 24:e1-e8
34. Mak RH, McCarthy EP, Das P et al (2011) Adoption of preoperative radiation therapy for rectal cancer from 2000 to 2006: a surveillance, epidemiology, and end results patterns-of-care study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 80:978-984
35. Brown G (2008) Staging rectal cancer: endoscopicand pelvic MRI. Cancer Imaging 8(Spec No A):S43-S45
36. Bellows CF, Jaffe B, Bacigalupo L et al (2011) Clinical significance of magnetic resonance imaging findings in rectal cancer. World J Radiol 3:92-104
37. Zuckerman IH, Rapp T, Onukwugha E et al (2009) Effect of age on survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly patients with stage III colon cancer. J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1403-1410
38. Fata F, Mirza A, Craig G et al (2002) Efficacy and toxicity of adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly patients with colon carcinoma: a 10-year experience of the Geisinger Medical Center. Cancer 94:1931-1938
39. Sundararajan V, Mitra N, Jacobson JS et al (2002) Survival associated with 5-fluorouracil-based adjuvant chemotherapy among elderly patients with node-positive colon cancer. Ann Intern Med 136:349-357
40. Margalit DN, Mamon HJ, Ancukiewicz M et al (2011) Tolerability of combined modality therapy for rectal cancer in elderly patients aged 75 years and older. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 81:e735-e741
41. Quipourt V, Jooste V, Cottet V et al (2011) Comorbidities alone do not explain the undertreatment of colorectal cancer in older adults: a French population-based study. J Am Geriatr Soc 59:694-698
42. Kurtz JE, Heitz D, Serra S et al (2010) Adjuvant chemotherapy in elderly patients with colorectal cancer: a retrospective analysis of the implementation of tumor board recommendations in a single institution. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 74:211-217
43. Wo JY, Mamon HJ, Ryan DP et al (2011) T3N0 rectal cancer: radiation for all? Semin Radiat Oncol 21:212-219
44. Birgisson H, Pahlman L, Gunnarsson U et al (2007) Late adverse effects of radiation therapy for rectal cancer: a systematic overview. Acta Oncol 46:504-516