Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of Golden-Angle Radial Sparse Parallel (GRASP) MRI in identifying pathological stage T0-1 (ypT0-1) after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) in patients with rectal cancer, compared to T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) combined with Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI).
Methods: In this retrospective study, 168 patients were carefully selected based on inclusion criteria that targeted individuals with biopsy-confirmed primary rectal adenocarcinoma, identified via MRI as having locally advanced disease (≥ T3 and/or positive lymph node results) prior to nCRT. Post-nCRT, all MRI images obtained after nCRT were assessed by two observers independently. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and accuracy for identifying ypT0-1 based on GRASP and T2 + DWI were calculated. Multivariable regression analysis was used to explore the factors independently associated with ypT0-1 tumor.
Results: 45 patients out of these cases were ypT0-1, and the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV of GRASP were higher than the T2 + DWI (88% vs 74%, 93% vs 71%, 86% vs 75%, 71% vs 52% and 97% vs 88%), the AUC in identifying ypT0-1 tumor based on GRASP was 0.90 (95% CI:0.84, 0.94), which was better than the T2 + DWI (0.73; 95% CI: 0.66, 0.80). Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that the yT stage on GRASP scans was the only factor independently associated with ypT0-1 tumor (P < 0.001).
Conclusion: The GRASP helped distinguish ypT0-1 tumor after nCRT and can select patients who may be suitable for local excision.
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