Predictive role of diffusion-weighted MRI in the assessment of response to total neoadjuvant therapy in locally advanced rectal cancer.

/s was found to be the optimal cutoff value for discriminating between pCR and non-pCR patients, with a sensitivity of 75% and specificity of 70%. • DW-MRI proved to have a potential predictive role in the assessment of response to therapy in patients with LARC, throughout the analysis of ADC map values.