"Watch and wait" approach in rectal cancer patients following complete clinical response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy does not compromise oncologic outcomes.

Background/aims: Although standart treatment for non-metastatic locally advanced rectal cancer includes neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgical resection, patients who have achieved complete clinical response can be followed up without surgery.

Materials And Methods: Between 2010 and 2016, 61 patients received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for low rectal cancer. Those patients who achieved clinical complete response were included in the "watch and wait" protocol and did not receive surgery.

Extralevator abdominoperineal excision versus conventional surgery for low rectal cancer: a single surgeon experience.

Objective: Extralevator abdominoperineal excision (ELAPE) reduces the risk of positive circumferential resection margin (CRM) and of intraoperative perforation (IOP), both of which are associated with high local recurrence rates and poor survival outcomes for rectal cancer. The aim of this study was to compare the results of ELAPE with conventional abdominoperineal excision (APE) for low rectal cancer.

Material And Methods: A total of 25 consecutive patients underwent ELAPE for low rectal cancer between November 2008 and September 2011.

Rate and Predictors of Endoscopic Mucosal Healing in Biologic Naive Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Azathioprine Treatment: A Real World, 10 Years' Experience from a Single Centre in Turkey.

Background: There is increasing evidence that endoscopic mucosal healing (EMH) is a key target in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) therapy. However, there is limited evidence of EMH rates with conventional IBD therapy outside of Western population groups.

Ai̇m: To evaluate the role of azathioprine (AZA) in inducing EMH in IBD patients.

Significant cohort of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with portal vein thrombosis in transplant waiting list.

Aim: To characterize non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) presentation with esophageal varices.

Methods: We carried out a retrospective cohort study on 258 patients with esophageal varices at a single tertiary referral center. These patients underwent diagnosis of several liver diseases, including: NAFLD-associated cirrhosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, Wilson disease, autoimune liver diseases, and others.

Thermochemotherapy in adjuvant treatment of primary high risk non muscle invasive bladder cancers: Single center results.

Objective: To evaluate the results of Thermochemotherapy in adjuvant treatment of primary high risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in our center.

Methods: The study included 26 patients with an age of 51-78 years (mean: 62.4 years).