Colorectal Cancer

The ALASCCA trial found that the risk of disease recurrence was reduced by 51% for patients with PIK3CA-mutated colorectal cancer who took aspirin for 3 years.

The BREAKWATER trial found that encorafenib and cetuximab with mFOLFOX6 chemotherapy generated an ORR of 60.9% in BRAF V600E–mutated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Post-operative ctDNA testing led to a change in adjuvant management in 1 of 6 patients with stage II/III colorectal cancer treated in the BESPOKE trial.

Updated results support nivolumab/ipilimumab as a standard of care in patients with MSI-H or dMMR metastatic colorectal cancer.

The results of a real-world study support palliative care integration in patients with advanced early-onset colorectal cancer.

No differences in oncologic outcomes occurred between mandatory TME or selective WW strategy in rectal cancer responders to neoadjuvant therapy.

Synchronous metastatic status does not appear to affect survival among patients with resected BRAF V600E-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Trastuzumab/pertuzumab elicited similar efficacy and fewer high-grade AEs vs cetuximab/irinotecan in RAS/BRAF wild-type, HER2–positive metastatic CRC.

Results from the CodeBreaK 300 trial helped lead to the approval of sotorasib/panitumumab in KRAS G12C-mutated CRC.

Updated efficacy findings from the phase 3 CheckMate-8HW trial also showed fewer grade 3/4 adverse events with nivolumab/ipilimumab vs chemotherapy.

Nivolumab with ipilimumab elicited improvements to progression-free survival in patients with microsatellite instability–high colorectal cancer.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to encorafenib in combination with cetuximab and mFOLFOX6 for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with a BRAF V600E mutation, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

For patients with KRAS-mutated colorectal cancer, onvansertib plus FOLFIRI/bevacizumab was effective in those who had not received prior bevacizumab.

The CHMP recommended for approval nivolumab/ipilimumab for patients with MSI-H and dMMR unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer.

The resubmission included an analysis of the phase 3 CARES-310 study, which reported favorable overall survival with the combination therapy in uHCC.

Data from the BLUE-C trial support the approval of the Cologuard Plus test for colorectal cancer screening among at-risk individuals.

Results from the INNATE trial showed the use of sotigalimab to be a safe and efficacious regimen for patients with rectal cancer.

The fixed-dose combination of favezelimab and pembrolizumab did not show an improvement in overall survival compared with the standard of care in patients with metastatic CRC.

The approval is based on results from the global phase 3 FRESCO-2 trial, which demonstrated improvement in OS in patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

NO-CUT trial data show that DRFS was maintained when non-operative management was used in patients with pMMR locally advanced rectal cancer.

Subgroup analysis in a phase 3 trial show OS benefits with the ramucirumab-based regimen in female patients and those with left-sided tumors.

Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, FACS, FASCRS, provides advice for upcoming surgeons starting out in the colorectal cancer field.

Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, FACS, FASCRS, discussed how robot-assisted surgery for colorectal cancers has evolved over the past 20 years.

Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, FACS, FASCRS, discussed surgical and medical oncology developments in the colorectal cancer field.

Improved overall survival was also noted when atezolizumab plus bevacizumab and FOLFOXIRI were used to treat patients with pMMR tumors.