The efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemo(radio)therapy combined with surgery in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer harboring defective mismatch repair system: a large-scale multicenter propensity score analysis
BackgroundFor locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) with a deficient mismatch repair/microsatellite instability-high (dMMR/MSI-H), particularly in patients not eligible for immunotherapy, the optimal treatment remains undetermined. This study was to ev…