Gastrointestinal Cancer

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.

The quality of life was maintained for patients with esophageal cancer plus including gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma when treated with pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy.

Nivolumab in combination with chemotherapy was beneficial vs chemotherapy alone in patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer at a follow-up of at least 24 months.

Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma achieved a statically significant and clinically meaningful survival benefit following treatment with pembrolizumab and best supportive care in the second line.

Patients with biliary tract cancer who were given the adjuvant oral fluoropyrimidine derivative S-1 had better overall survival compared with surgery alone.