Colorectal Cancer

Medical oncologists offer comprehensive insights on the role of circulating tumor DNA in the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer.

Following ASCO GI 2024, Pamela L. Kunz, MD, joins the Oncology Brothers, Rahul Gosain, MD, and Rohit Gosain, MD, to discuss results from the CheckMate 8HW study investigating nivolumab plus ipilimumab in MSI-high/mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer.

In this companion article, Dr Tanios Bekaii-Saab provides insights into effective management of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD, reviews real-world data and treatment sequencing for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

A dual primary end point of progression-free survival in the phase 3 CheckMate-8HW trial evaluating nivolumab and ipilimumab in metastatic colorectal cancer has been met.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Chris Haqq, MD, PhD, discussed the potential use of cancer vaccines in patients with KRAS-mutated pancreatic and colon cancer.

Rohit Gosain, MD, and Rahul Gosain, MD, provide a summary of the key gastrointestinal cancer data updates discussed following the 2023 ESMO Congress Meeting.

Rachna Shroff, MD, details key data from the phase III GASTFOX study comparing FOLFOX to docetaxel (TFOX) in the first line treatment of advanced gastric cancer.

Expert medical oncologists review data from the CABINET trial evaluating cabozantinib compared with placebo in two cohorts of previously treated patients with neuroendocrine tumors.

Rachna Shroff, MD, chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, highlights key data from the Codebreak300 study evaluating if the combination of sotorasib and panitumumab is superior to standard-of-care trifluridine/tipiracil or regorafenib in the setting of chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, City of Hope cancer center’s Marwan Fakih, MD, further discussed the findings from this phase 3 trial and future directions for evaluating this combination.

In season 4, episode 18 of Targeted Talks, Arvind Dasari, MD, MS, dives into the recent approval of fruquintinib for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

The multicenter, open-label, CodeBreaK 300 trial of sotorasib plus panitumumab showed consistent efficacy across key subgroups of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer harboring KRAS G12C mutations.

While a notable difference in the occurrence of adverse events was seen between patients treated with maximal tumor debulking and standard systemic therapy vs systemic therapy alone, health-related quality-of-life and fatigue scales showed no substantial differences over time.

Researchers identified different functions of groups of intraepithelial T cells (T-IELs) throughout the gastrointestinal tract, which could help inform future immunological treatment for patients with colorectal cancer.

The treatment landscape for patients with resected stage III colon cancer has undergone a significant change, following publication of an International Development and Education Award presentation abstract in the August 2023 Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

The CRCdx RAS mutation detection kit was designed to detect 35 variants of KRAS and NRAS exon 2, 3, and 4 somatic mutations in patients with colorectal cancer.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki was granted 2 breakthrough therapy designations by the FDA for its potential to fill a treatment gap for HER2-expressing tumors.

Treatment with an investigational mitochondrial inhibitor and bevacizumab has started in a phase 1b clinical trial of patients with previously-treated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Trifluridine/tipiracil plus bevacizumab improved rates of progression-free and overall survival vs trifluridine/tipiracil alone in the SUNLIGHT study. Now, the combination is FDA-approved for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Following early efficacy demonstrated with DKN-01, bevacizumab, and chemotherapy in part A of the DeFianCe study, part B has begun enrolling patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

The combination of botensilimab and balstilimab combination showed a survival benefit, regardless of RECIST 1.1 responses, among patients with metastatic, heavily pretreated, microsatellite stable colorectal cancer.

The FoundationOne®Liquid CDx has received FDA approval as a companion diagnostic for encorafenib plus cetuximab for patients with BRAF V600E-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer.

The primary end point was not reached in the phase 3 SOLSTICE study.

Results from the DESTINY-CRC02 study showed that a lower dose of trastuzumab deruxtecan elicited promising results for patients with HER2-positive metastatic colorectal cancer vs a higher dose of the therapy.