ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium

Data presented at the 2021 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium found that health-related quality of life among younger survivors of colorectal cancer is poor and social and functional well-being are also suffering as treatment durations increase.

When compared with chemotherapy, patients with microsatellite-instability high/mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer saw significant improvement in progression-free survival with the frontline use of pembrolizumab monotherapy, while demonstrating superior safety.

The hospitalist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center spoke about the design of a study which evaluated the use of 177Lu-DOTATATE in patients with well-differentiated, high-grade neuroendocrine tumors.

Three abstracts reported at a medical meeting indicate that the combination of pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib is active in various gastrointestinal cancers.

Patient's surgical risk for potentially resectable advanced thoracic esophageal cancer is not negatively impacted by neoadjuvant chemotherapy, study finds.

Data presented at the 2021 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium found that health-related quality of life was steady and similar over the course of 18 weeks for patients receiving chemotherapy with or without pembrolizumab for esophageal cancer.

Cancertrialsearch.com helped to match patients with gastrointestinal cancers to clinical trials using 7 different criteria, possibly paving the way for patients to find, understand, and enroll in oncology clinical trials.

Similar results with nivolumab and a matched placebo are reported with preliminary health-related quality-of-life data from the CheckMate 577 trial.

Stage 4 gastrointestinal stromal tumors were analyzed through a database query, results of which were presented in a poster at a recent medical meeting.

Statistically significant improvements in median progression-free survival were observed in patients with HER2- amplified disease who were treated with pembrolizumab in combination with trastuzumab and cisplatin plus capecitabine compared with those without HER2-amplified disease.

The phase 1b/2 PLANET study demonstrated promising results for patients with these rare gastrointestinal cancers.

The phase 2 study presented at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium reported a total of 2 responses at the interim analysis, meeting criteria to continue accrual.

The expert in hematology/oncology spoke about the study which evaluated the use of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy in patients with well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors.

The latest trial results are based on a larger patient population and were reported at the 2019 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

The results of the double-blind, phase III trial were presented at the 2019 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

Treatment with pembrolizumab plus axitinib improved response and survival compared with sunitinib in patients with advanced, or metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma.

African-American men with mCRPC may derive greater overall survival benefit from treatment with newer chemotherapies than Caucasian men.

In this interview, we spoke with John J. Coen, MD, a radiation oncologist who presented results at the 2018 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium of a phase II study exploring two different radiation-plus-chemotherapy combination strategies in patients undergoing bladder surgery for their tumors.

Pazopanib was not associated with prolonged progression-free survival compared with temsirolimus among patients with advanced clear-cell renal cell carcinoma, but a subgroup analysis of intermediate-risk patients offered some reason for optimism.

Adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy is associated with delayed metastasis among patients diagnosed with upper-tract urothelial carcinoma, according to findings from the phase III POUT trial.

Adjuvant therapy with sunitinib after nephrectomy was associated with increased mortality among older women with renal cell carcinoma, according to a subgroup analysis of data from the ASSURE trial.

Combining axitinib and pembrolizumab is “safe and tolerable” among patients with previously untreated advanced renal cell carcinoma, with 73% of patients responding, according to findings from an open-label, phase Ib trial.

Fewer patients diagnosed with testicular cancer were uninsured, and fewer were diagnosed with late-stage disease, following the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid enrollment expansion.

Researchers reported promising safety data from an ongoing phase Ib/II clinical trial for SM-88, an investigational combination therapy that might one day offer an alternative to androgen deprivation therapy for men with recurrent, nonmetastatic prostate cancer.

Enzalutamide resulted in a 71% reduction in metastatic disease risk among men with castration-resistant prostate cancer and rapid prostate-specific antigen doubling time, according to the first interim analysis of data from the phase III PROSPER trial. 

Researchers are developing a prognostic hypoxia gene signature for patients with localized prostate cancer that could predict biochemical failure and metastasis.

A newly developed clinical model can predict overall survival for patients diagnosed with advanced bladder cancer who are treated with atezolizumab.

Adding docetaxel chemotherapy to frontline hormone therapy improves quality of life and may reduce the need for subsequent treatment, according to an analysis from the STAMPEDE trial.

Adding atezolizumab and bevacizumab to standard care was tolerable and slowed tumor growth in patients with previously untreated clear-cell or sarcomatoid-histology metastatic renal cell carcinoma when compared to sunitinib, according to findings from a phase III study.

Apalutamide was well-tolerated and associated with delayed metastasis in men with high-risk castration-resistant prostate cancer that has become refractory to conventional hormone therapy, according to an early interim analysis of the phase III SPARTAN clinical trial.