Gastrointestinal Cancer

Results from the phase 2 HERIZON study identified improved overall survival for patients treated with IMU-131 plus standard of care vs standard of care alone in advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer.

Patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors may benefit from 68GA-RM26 PET/CT vs 18F-FDG, according to findings presented at the 2022 Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting.

Shubham Pant, MD discusses key findings from a basket trial examining the use of erdafitinib in patients with gastrointestinal and other solid tumor malignancies.

A 100% clinical complete response rate was observed when patients with stage II/III mismatch repair-deficient locally advanced rectal cancer were treated with dostarlimab.

A Claudin18.2–specific CAR T-cell therapy has shown promise in the treatment of patients with heavily pretreated advanced gastric and pancreatic adenocarcinoma whose disease expresses the marker.

Sam Klempner, MD, spoke about how clinicians exploring use of ctDNA in gastrointestinal cancers may inform their research with results from other tumor types.

The results of the phase 3 TOPAZ-1 trial led to the priority review of durvalumab plus chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced biliary tract cancer.

Patients with unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer that is relapsed/refractory following other approved therapies may benefit from treatment with single-agent CMG901, which was granted fast track designation by the FDA.

Sam Klempner, MD, spoke about clinical management and ctDNA for gastrointestinal cancers.

Sam Klempner, MD, spoke about the importance of expanding minimal residual disease platforms for patients with gastrointestinal cancers.

Patients with resectable gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma experienced good pathologic complete response with standard of care chemotherapy and perioperative/adjuvant pembrolizumab.

Results of CheckMate 649 trial show consistently improved outcomes across advanced gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, and esophageal adenocarcinoma when nivolumab is administered in combination with chemotherapy.

Black patients were reported to be significantly less likely to receive standard of care surgical treatment for cancer of the gastrointestinal tract compared with White patients.

Sam Klempner, MD, spoke about utilizing ctDNA the treat nonmetastatic gastroesophageal cancers at 2022 IGCC.

A new drug application for futibatinib has been accepted for priority review in patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 gene rearrangements.

Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, spoke about which biomarkers were most predictive for treatment of localized gastric cancer.

Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, spoke about using immunotherapy across settings to treat localized gastric cancer.

In this month’s Letter to the Readers, ONCOLOGY co-editor-in-chief Howard S. Hochster, MD, reviews results of the CIRCULATE-Japan clinical trial that were presented at the 2022 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, spoke about using immunotherapy to treat localized gastric cancer.

NUC-1031 plus cisplatin was unlikely to reach a primary end point of improved overall survival in advanced biliary tract cancer, leading to the discontinuation of the phase 3 NuTide:121 trial.

Patients with advanced midgut neuroendocrine tumors experienced a clinically relevant improvement in median overall survival when treated with 177Lu-Dotatate compared with the control of high-dose long-acting octreotide, although the difference was not significant.

The CheckMate 648 trial found that using a combination of nivolumab and chemotherapy or nivolumab plus ipilimumab vs chemotherapy alone improved survival in advanced esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma.

“The pendulum is moving fast towards giving chemotherapy prior to surgery, and the research is going on to continue that trend.”

Zev A. Wainberg, MD, discusses future research efforts for the treatment of patients with advanced gastric cancer.

Jun Gong, MD, hosted a Twitter takeover during the 2022 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium where he discussed breaking presentations in a #CNRealtimeReport.

Zev A. Wainberg, MD, spoke to the rationale for examining the efficacy of pembrolizumab alone and in combination with chemotherapy for patients with advanced gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Tislelizumab met the primary end point of overall survival in the phase 3 RATIONALE 305 trial in a population of patients with locally advanced unresectable/metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer with a PD-L1–expressing tumor in the first-line setting.

Pemigatinib is a new treatment option following approval from the Hong Kong Department of Health for patients with locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with an FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement following progression on at least 1 prior line of therapy.

Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma achieved notable improvements in survival and responses following treatment with transarterial chemoembolization and lenvatinib.

Interim results of a phase 2 trial found a safe toxicity profile for olaparib plus pembrolizumab in advanced cholangiocarcinoma.