VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHEMORADIATION THERAPY FOR ANAL CANCER: RELATIONSHIP AND PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES
Journal: Cardiometry
Year: 2023

The effectiveness of chemoradiation therapy (CRT) is conventionally assessed in terms of achieving clinical complete response (CCR), overall and event-free survival. Anal cancer (AR) is considered as one of the cancer diseases with a proven etiological agent: the human papillomavirus (HPV). The search for biomarkers to predict the effectiveness of CRT is always relevant, and an assessment of virological response (VR) may be useful for this purpose. Aim: To compare rates of clinical complete resp