Colorectal Cancer

The Therapeutic Management of Metastatic CRC

Manish A. Shah, MD, director of gastrointestinal oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses the differences between right- and left-sided colon cancer.

In the phase III KEYNOTE-177 trial, investigators are hoping to show that frontline treatment with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) can improve progression-free survival compared with standard-of-care chemotherapy in patients with mismatch repair-deficient or microsatellite instability-high colorectal cancer.

Investigators aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of primary tumor location in patients with fully resected colon cancer, as well as its relationship to microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H), <em>RAS</em>, and <em>BRAF</em> mutational status, in a study presented at this year&#39;s World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer.

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, shares his excitement for&nbsp;findings from clinical studies on liquid biopsies, Immunoscore^&reg;, and primary tumor location in colorectal cancer.

Today, ABP-215, a biosimilar for bevacizumab developed by Amgen and Allergan, received FDA approval for the treatment of several different cancer types, making it the first biosimilar approved for the treatment of cancer.

Progression of Treatment in Colorectal Cancer

Manuel Hidalgo, MD, shares his insight on the growth of genetic testing in CRC.<br /> &nbsp;

Dr. John Marshall presents the Avastin MCRC pivotal trials. Follow a hypothetical patient through first- and second-line treatment with Avastin.

Manish A. Shah, MD,&nbsp;director of gastrointestinal oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses the decreasing incidence of colon cancer diagnosis in those over the age of 50.

In patients with heavily-pretreated microsatellite stable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), treatment with CEA-TCB, an investigational CEA/CD3 bispecific antibody, showed a favorable safety profile and promising efficacy, with enhanced efficacy when combined with the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab.

Dominik P. Modest, MD, discusses a retrospective, central evaluation of the FIRE-3 study to determine surgical treatment options, which explored the number of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who had resectable disease during systemic first-line therapy.&nbsp;

Nivolumab (Opdivo) has been granted an accelerated approval by the FDA for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer that has progressed following treatment with a fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan.

During the 2017 ESMO Congress, to be held September 8-12 in Madrid, Spain, the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) will award 4 oncologists with its distinguished annual awards: