Tumor responses to induction chemotherapy
As shown in Table 2, the responders with overall CR and PR were 57.8%
(n=48) and non-responders with SD or PD were 42.2% (n=35). The reasons
why non-responders received RT or CCRT rather than surgery were
individual inclination to non-surgical strategies (n=15, 42.9%),
inoperable tumors (n=2, 5.7%), and low surgical curability (n=18,
51.4%). Conclusively, based upon the inaccessibility to surgery and
overall evaluation from the MDT, the IC non-responders underwent the
CCRT or RT instead of surgery.