Esophageal Cancer | Topics

Data from the Journal of the American College of Surgeons suggest patients 70 years or older with esophageal or esophagogastric junction cancers should be evaluated for optimal curative therapy.

The phase 3 RATIONALE 302 trial demonstrated that compared to chemotherapy, tislelizumab showed a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival in the intention-to-treat population of patients with advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

A leading expert in the field of esophageal cancers discussed his upcoming research on cabozantinib combined with pembrolizumab to treat gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma at the 2021 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.