Outcomes of Anal Cancer Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treated with Curative Chemoradiotherapy: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Anal canal squamous cell cancer (ASCC) is commonly treated with chemoradiotherapy (CRT). Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a relative contraindication to pelvic radiotherapy due to toxicity concerns. Advances in treatment planning since the 2000s have resulted in lower radiation doses delivered to nearby at-risk organs. We systematically reviewed the literature to answer the question "Do IBD patients with ASCC treated with CRT have different outcomes than non-IBD patients in the present era?". We searched the Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane, ClinicalTrials.gov, and CINAHL databases for English-language articles published between 1 January 2001 and 1 January 2025. We included patients with ASCC treated curatively with CRT. This systematic review is registered in the PROSPERO international systematic review registry (CRD420251062114). A total of 220 unique articles were identified. Two reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts, which was followed by full-text screening. Eleven publications, comprising 24 patients, were included in the systematic review. The local recurrence rate following CRT was 25%, and 30% of patients had documented late toxicity. The included literature consists of case reports and small case series. Despite the limitations, our review shows toxicity, local control, and survival outcomes for IBD patients with ASCC treated with CRT that are comparable to those of non-IBD patients.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".