Abstract

We clarified the safety and efficacy of preoperative chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer using a multidrug regimen (S-1 + oxaliplatin + bevacizumab). This multicenter phase II trial involved 47 patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. All patients received S-1 orally (80mg/m2/day on days 1-5, 8-12, 15-19, and 22-26) and infusions of oxaliplatin (50mg/m2 on days 1, 8, 15, and 22) and bevacizumab (5mg/kg on days 1 and 15). The total radiation dose was 40Gy delivered in daily fractions of 2Gy via the four-field technique. The primary endpoint was the pathological complete response rate. The secondary endpoints were safety (incidence of adverse events) and clinical response, relapse-free survival, overall survival, local recurrence, R0 resection, downstaging, and treatment completion rates. All 47 patients received chemoradiotherapy, and 44 patients underwent curative resection. Two patients refused surgery and selected a watch-and-wait strategy. The pathological complete response rate was 18.2% in patients who underwent curative resection. The clinical response rate was 91.3% in 46 patients. Concerning hematotoxicity, there was one grade 4 adverse event (2.1%) and seven grade 3 events (14.9%). Diarrhea was the most frequent non-hematotoxic event, and the grade 3 event rate was 25.5%. Although preoperative chemoradiotherapy for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer using the S-1 + oxaliplatin + bevacizumab regimen did not achieve the expected pathological complete response rate, this regimen led to an improved clinical response rate.

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