Gastrointestinal Cancer

Developers launched a clinical laboratory-developed test version of Haystack MRD in late 2024 and are further expanding access for oncologists.

Although radiotherapy was safe and well tolerated in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, more research is needed to confirm these results.

A meta-analysis did not find any correlation between pathologic complete response and overall survival or disease-free survival in patients with rectal cancer.

After the predictive probability of achieving superiority with mFOLFIRINOX or S-IROX was less than 1%, the trial was terminated due to futility.

Significantly improved survival was observed with oxaliplatin among patients aged 60 to 70 years with stage III CRC but not among those older than 70 years.

TTFields plus chemotherapy significantly prolonged overall survival compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with pancreatic cancer.

Induction chemotherapy may allow investigators to biologically select patients with a favorable prognosis who benefit most from chemoradiotherapy.

The retrospective study is the largest to evaluate the relationship between dose-averaged LET profiles and local control after CIRT for pancreatic cancer.

Phase 1 data may support continued research of amphiphile lymph node–targeted immunotherapy in solid tumors.

Data suggest that sotorasib plus panitumumab may represent a valuable new treatment option in this KRAS G12C–mutated colorectal cancer population.

Data from the PANOVA-3 trial may support the concomitant use of TTFields plus standard of care in solid tumors across different therapeutic settings.

Epistemic closure, broad-scale distribution, and insurance companies are the 3 largest obstacles to implementing new peritoneal surface malignancy care guidelines into practice.

The independent data monitoring committee confirmed the favorable safety profile of ELI-002 7P for the treatment of PDAC in the phase 1/2 AMPLIFY-7P trial.

“This is something where this is written by the trainees, for the trainees, and, of course, for all the other clinicians who take care of patients,” said Kiran Turaga, MD, MPH.

“Everyone—patients, doctors—we all want the same thing. We want [patients] to live longer,” said Kiran Turaga, MD, MPH, on patients with peritoneal surface malignancies.

The new peritoneal surface malignancy care guidelines had clinicians gather from every disease state to show increased representation.

These new guidelines aim to alleviate some of the problems caused by patients with peritoneal metastases being diagnosed with the disease in late stages.

Phase 2 CRDF-004 results revealed that adding onvansertib to chemotherapy/bevacizumab was well tolerated, with no unexpected toxicities observed.

Results from the phase 3 MATTERHORN trial support the FDA’s designations for durvalumab in gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancers.

Results from the phase 3 CABINET trial demonstrated a clear progression-free survival benefit with cabozantinib vs placebo in patients with well-differentiated pNET/epNET.

Short-course radiotherapy combined with sintilimab plus oxaliplatin-capecitabine yielded a pCR rate of 59.2% vs 32.7% with the control arm in locally advanced rectal cancer.

Patients with nonmetastatic esophageal cancer who received FLOT chemotherapy achieved a 3-year OS rate of 61.1% in an analysis of the phase 3 ESOPEC trial.

Transarterial chemoembolization plus sorafenib did not significantly improve overall survival in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma vs sorafenib alone.

Phase 1b data show antitumor activity with the givastomig combination across a wide range of CLDN18.2 expression.

Data from the phase 3 BEACON CRC trial support the approval of encorafenib plus cetuximab for this colorectal cancer population in China.