Does fifty-three hours of total sleep deprivation have no effect on rewarming from cold air exposure?
Under the conditions of the present study, sleep-deprived persons are not at a greater risk for a decline in rectal temperature (ie, a hypothermic afterdrop) during rewarming from cold air.
Of those patients who were restaged, 32% had their management plan altered from that recorded at the initial LGIMDT discussion. Seventeen per cent of patients in this group had a complete clinical and radiological response to treatment. Fifteen percent demonstrated disease progression. We recommend, therefore, that patients with rectal cancer be restaged with CT and MRI following long-course chemoradiotherapy as surgery may be avoided in up to 27% of cases.