Letter to the Editor: Total neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: Navigating beyond surgical outcomes to holistic patient-centered care

Table 1 Comparison of outcomes between total neoadjuvant therapy-RAPIDO and standard long-course chemoradiotherapy, median

Outcome	Total neoadjuvant therapy-RAPIDO (n = 29)	Standard long-course chemoradiotherapy (n = 70)	P value
R0 resection rate	93.1%	90.0%	0.65
Lymph node harvest	40.7	23.4	< 0.001
Total stoma duration (weeks)	27.1	42.5	0.02
Permanent stoma rate	13.8%	35.7%	0.01
Pathological complete response rate	13.8%	10.0%	0.58
30-day morbidity rate	17.2%	21.4%	0.63
Operative time (minutes)	185	178	0.51