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Submit a Manuscript: /esps/ World J Gastrointest Surg 2015 November 27; 7(11): 306-312 Help Desk: /esps/helpdesk.aspx ISSN 1948-9366 (online) DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v7.i11.306 © 2015 Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. MINIREVIEWS Watch and wait approach to rectal cancer: A review Marcos E Pozo, Sandy H Fang Marcos E Pozo, Sandy H Fang, Ravitch Division, Colorectal cause of cancer death in both men and women in the Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, United States and over one-third of newly diagnosed Baltimore, MD 21287, United States patients have stage Ⅲ (node-positive) disease. For stage and colorectal cancer patients, the mainstay Ⅱ Ⅲ Author contributions: Pozo ME and Fang SH contributed of curative therapy is neoadjuvant therapy, followed equally to this work as follows: Conception and design, acqui­ by radical surgical resection of the rectum. However, sition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the the consequences of a proctectomy, either by low article, critical revisions, and final approval of the version to be anterior resection or abdominoperineal resection, published. can lead to very extensive comorbidities, such as the Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflicting need for a permanent colostomy, fecal incontinence, interests to report from both authors of thi