# Early Rectal Cancer: Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection or Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery?

> **NCT02885142** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille** · enrollment: 368 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Anal Cancer

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Local excision for early rectal cancer

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02885142
- **Lead sponsor:** Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2016-11
- **Primary completion:** 2020-06-11
- **Final completion:** 2022-08-24
- **Target enrollment:** 368 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** difficulties to recruit all the patients
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-18


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02885142

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02885142, "Early Rectal Cancer: Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection or Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery?". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02885142. Licensed CC0.

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