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Tiago Varella-Cid Maldonado Dos Santos1, Dieter Hahnloser1, Fabian Grass1
1Service de chirurgie viscérale, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, 1011 Lausanne.
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The treatment of rectal cancer has evolved dramatically in recent years. Today, specialists have more options to choose from, ranging from primary surgical resection with or without neoadjuvant treatment to an organ-preserving strategy (such as Watch-and-Wait) after total neoadjuvant treatment. The aim of this article is to review the advantages, limits, and risks of the Watch-and-Wait strategy for the treatment of rectal cancer.
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