Clinical trialNCT05526079TerminatedInterventional

Watchful Waiting for Complete Responders to Therapy in Rectal Cancer

SponsorHenry Ford Health SystemEnrollment15Rectal Cancer

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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this project is to determine if in a selected group of patients, at higher risk of wound dehiscence and other complications, treatment by local excision and management by a "watchful waiting" or an initial "non-operative management" approach, with an offer of radical resection only to those patients whose tumors demonstrate "regrowth" will maintain acceptable local control and overall survival rate for the whole cohort.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Amr Aref, MD
Ascension St. John Hospital
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Ascension St. John Hospital
Detroit, Michigan, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 10 Jul 2018
Primary completion: 31 Mar 2026
Completion: 31 Mar 2026
Last update posted: 23 Jul 2026
Registered enrollment: 15
Registry id: NCT05526079

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.