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  • Radiology
  • Surgical Oncology

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  • Accurate staging of early rectal cancer is vital for organ-preserving treatment decisions.
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a key tool for preoperative staging.
  • The accuracy of routine MRI, with or without endorectal ultrasonography (ERUS), needs evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the accuracy of routine MRI staging for early rectal cancer (cT1-2).
  • To determine if combining MRI with ERUS improves staging accuracy.
  • To evaluate the impact of staging accuracy on organ-preserving treatment strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Population-based study using the Dutch ColoRectal Audit (2011-2018).
  • Included patients with cT1-2 rectal cancer undergoing local excision or TME without neoadjuvant therapy.
  • Calculated sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value for MRI alone and MRI + ERUS.

Main Results:

  • Significant overstaging of pT1 tumors: 54.7% by MRI alone, 31.0% by MRI + ERUS.
  • Understaging of pT2 disease occurred in 8.2% (MRI alone) and 27.9% (MRI + ERUS).
  • MRI alone overstaged pN0 in 17.3%; PPV for cN0 was 76.3%. Only 30.3% of potentially locally excisable pT1N0 tumors were correctly staged.

Conclusions:

  • Routine preoperative MRI for early rectal cancer exhibits substantial overstaging.
  • This overstaging may lead to missed opportunities for organ preservation.
  • The accuracy of MRI staging needs improvement to better guide treatment decisions.