GI CANCERS

The FDA has accepted for priority review a new drug application for futibatinib seeking approval for the treatment of patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma who harbor FGFR2 gene rearrangement, including gene fusions.

During a debate at the Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, Florian Lordick, MD, argued that knowledge of PD-L1 expression level was needed before starting immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. He was challenged by Aaron James Scott, MD, who argued that knowledge of PD-L1 is not necessary before initiating immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.

Michael Chuong, MD, discusses the unmet needs for the treatment of inoperable pancreatic cancer.

Targeted therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors is necessary after surgery for patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors with residual disease requiring resection to prevent disease recurrence.

There remains a need for biomarkers of primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor subclones to characterize invasion or metastasis, according to Jonathan A. Fletcher, MD.

Ryan Sugarman, MD, discusses the design and purpose of the CheckMate 649 trial for gastroesophageal cancers, gastric cancer, and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD, FACP, discusses the phase 1/1b and 2 KRYSTAL-1 trial and his presentation from the American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

The developer has announced that half of the patients are now enrolled in the BESPOKE CRC clinical trial.

Cathy Eng, MD, discusses what can be done in order to integrate biomarker testing for anal cancer into clinical practice.

Following positive early results from the ASPEN-01 clinical trial, the first patient with HER2-positve gastric or gastroesophageal cancer has received the experimental combination of evorpacept, trastuzumab, ramucirumab, and paclitaxel in ASPEN-06.

The phase 3 NuTide:121 study of acelarin was terminated due to failing to meet a primary end point of overall survival benefit.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Ryan Sugarman, MD, discussed the CheckMate 649 trial and Q-TWiST results to provide a further understanding of survival and quality of life benefit of nivolumab plus chemo versus chemo alone.

TJ-CD4B had been granted orphan drug designation by the FDA for the treatment of patients with gastric cancer, including gastroesophageal junction carcinoma.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Samuel K. Klempner, MD, discussed the promise of DKN-01 and early results from the DisTinGuish trial.

Sumanta K. Pal, MD, explains what gastrointestinal cancer research needs to focus on in the near future.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD, explained how adagrasib works to target KRAS mutations as well as its importance.

For localized colorectal cancer, the use of circulating tumor tDNA for both quantitative and qualitative detection can inform the risk of recurrence and metastatic dissemination.

Neoadjuvant treatment with pembrolizumab, paclitaxel, and cisplatin achieved encouraging tumor responses in patients with locally advanced resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Pancreatic tumor responses to sotorasib in CodeBreak 100 have significantly surpassed the 16% response rate achieved with FDA-approved therapies.

Toufic Kachaamy, MD, discusses an upcoming course that teaches the multidisciplinary approach for clinicians who have a hand in treating gastrointestinal cancers.

Nathan Bahary, MD, discussed with Targeted Oncology how the cholangiocarcinoma treatment paradigm has changed and what is on the horizon for treatment and care of patients.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Toufic Kachaamy, MD, discussed in detail the role of the gastroenterology community in staging, diagnosing, and managing gastrointestinal malignancies.

A real-world guide to best practices in treating neuroendocrine tumors can improve patient outcomes.

Patients with gastrointestinal cancers are being enrolled to a phase 1/2 of pelareorep in combination with atezolizumab.

Results presented during the 2022 January ASCO Plenary Series showed that ripretinib did perform better than sunitinib in terms of the objective response rate, and the safety profile of the drug was favorable compared with sunitinib.

Afsaneh Barzi, Md, PhD, provides background on a new phase 1/2 studying exploring the combination of regorafenib and pembrolizumab in patients with refractory microsatellite stable colorectal cancer.

Olaparib and pembrolizumab appear to be a safe and tolerable combination therapy for patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma.

According to new KEYNOTE-590 study findings, pembrolizumab and chemotherapy as a treatment for patients with locally advanced and metastatic esophageal cancer showed clinical benefit.