Using Genetics to Determine Disparities in Gastric Cancer

Findings from the phase 3 CheckMate 649 trial support nivolumab plus chemotherapy as a standard frontline therapy for patients with gastric, gastroesophageal junction, and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Ahead of the 2017 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium in San Francisco, we spoke with Dr. Geoffrey Ku on the advances in systemic therapy for esophageal and gastric cancer.

Over half of the patients with HER2-negative gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma achieve a major pathological complete response following treatment with sintilimab plus FLOT in a phase 2 trial.

Ahead of the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting, we are discussing over-the-counter therapies for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH.

Risk-reducing total gastrectomy is associated with short-term and long-term physical and emotional AEs in patients with pathogenic or likely pathogenic germline CDH1 P/LP variants.

Investigators observe a benefit with durvalumab plus neoadjuvant chemotherapy among subgroups of patients regardless of microsatellite instability status in the phase 3 MATTERHORN trial.