# OnCo record watch-and-wait-rectal-cancer (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/watch-and-wait-rectal-cancer/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "watch-and-wait-rectal-cancer" ;
  schema:name "Watch and wait after chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "watch and wait rectal cancer"@en, "non-operative management of rectal cancer"@en, "deferral of surgery"@en, "organ preservation rectal cancer"@en, "watch-and-wait"@en, "watch and wait"@en ;
  schema:description "In some people the rectal tumour disappears completely after chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Watch and wait means keeping the rectum and checking it closely instead of removing it, and operating only if the tumour comes back. About a quarter of regrowths happen, almost all within two years, and almost all can still be operated on."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/watch-and-wait-rectal-cancer/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-24"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchful_waiting> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)31078-x>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.22.00032>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.23.01208>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng151/chapter/Recommendations> ;
  onco:tag "gi", "colorectal" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/rectal-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/msi-high-colorectal/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/mri/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/endoscopy/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/clinical-complete-response/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/organ-preservation/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/total-mesorectal-excision/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/total-neoadjuvant-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/circumferential-resection-margin/> .