Gastrointestinal Cancer

Data from the phase 3 CRC-PREVENT trial support the sensitivity of ColoSense in the detection of colorectal cancer.

CheckMate-8HW assessed the efficacy of first-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with MSI-H/dMMR metastatic colorectal cancer.

The primary end point of overall survival was met in the KEYNOTE-811 trial assessing pembrolizumab in HER2-positive gastrointestinal cancer.

Immunotherapy may be an “elegant” method of managing colorectal cancer, says Gregory Charak, MD.

Safety findings highlight no severe adverse effects or dose-limiting toxicities with the rintatolimod combination in late-stage pancreatic cancer.

Using FOLFIRI as a doublet with durvalumab or a triplet with durvalumab and tremelimumab yielded positive safety in gastric/GEJ cancers.

Patients with overexpressing breast and gastric cancers may now receive trastuzumab-strf, which has been approved by the FDA.

Administering neoadjuvant therapy to patients with colorectal cancer may help surgical oncologists attain a negative-margin resection.

Data from 10 new randomized clinical trials support updated recommendations for various systemic therapy regimens in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Increasing screening for younger individuals who are at risk of colorectal cancer may help mitigate the rising early incidence of this disease.

ME-344 and bevacizumab can now have an additional 20 patients enrolled on the phase 1b trial for relapsed metastatic colorectal cancer.

Laparoscopy may reduce the degree of pain or length of hospital stay compared with open surgery for patients with colorectal cancer.

Sam Klempner, MD, provides insight on HER2-targeted therapy for patients with upper GI cancer, and the Oncology Brothers recap the entire discussion.

Medical oncologists discuss the role for comprehensive next-generation sequencing (NGS) in upper GI cancers and the potential role for zolbetuximab.

Dr Klempner and the Oncology Brothers discuss the treatment paradigm for patients with metastatic upper GI cancers.

The Oncology Brothers and Sam Klempner, MD, offer comprehensive insights on treating residual disease in upper GI cancers following FLOT treatment.

Sam Klempner, MD, joins Rahul Gosain, MD, and Rohit Gosain, MD, to discuss treatment strategies for esophageal, GE junction, and gastric cancers.

Patients who are African American appeared to have worse clinical stages of colon and rectal cancer during surgery in 2020.

The recent Hot Topics section focuses on survival rates for patients with cholangiocarcinoma.

The phase 3 TOPAZ-1 trial of durvalumab plus chemotherapy showed a significant benefit vs chemotherapy alone for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer.

Sacituzumab tirumotecan elicited responses prominently in the second- and third-line and beyond setting and in those with high TROP2 expression.

Experts discuss findings related to gastrointestinal cancer outcomes as well as treatment inequalities presented at the 2024 SSO Annual Meeting.

In-hospital mortality and complication rates were lower at accredited hospitals vs those not accredited for patients undergoing rectal cancer surgery.

Data from the phase 1/2 KRYSTAL-1 trial may support adagrasib plus cetuximab as a new standard in previously treated metastatic KRAS G12C–mutated CRC.

The pilot trial is planning to enroll 20 patients who are deemed inoperable but do not have metastatic disease.