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Ruth He, MD, discusses potential options for physicians in their treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Ruth He, MD, acknowledges the current struggles experts face in combatting unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Ruth He, MD, discusses the approval of frontline atezolizumab-bevacizumab and its relation to subsequent treatment of patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Ruth He, MD, discusses major takeaways from the phase 3 IMbrave150 trial of atezolizumab and bevacizumab in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Ruth He, MD, highlights factors that influence her use of frontline systemic therapy in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Ruth He, MD, discusses the current treatment options for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Ping Chi, MD, a medical oncologist, and Geoffrey Beene Junior Faculty chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, reviews the results of a phase 2 study of binimetinib plus imatinib as treatment of patients with untreated advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

In season 2, episode 2 of Targeted Talks, Cathy Eng, MD, speaks with Benjamin Weinberg, MD, about the gut microbiome, and how the presence of certain microbiota impact the onset and intensity of disease as well as the potential response to certain treatments.

In the phase 2 FIDES-01 clinical trial, treatment with the FGFR inhibitor, derazantinib, led to an objective response rate of 24% in patients with FGFR2 gene fusion-positive advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

This past year, 2020, will go down as a practice-changing one for the treatment of esophageal cancer, said Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD.

In the phase 1 clinical trial of NBTXR3 with chemotherapy and radiation therapy as treatment of patients with esophageal cancer, the first patient has been dosed with the investigational tumor-agnostic radioenhancer.

The FDA has granted a Priority Review to the combination of nivolumab with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy, which is a potential treatment option for patients with advanced or metastatic gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, or esophageal adenocarcinoma.

The FDA accepted a supplemental Biologics License Application for nivolumab as adjuvant treatment of patients with resected esophageal or gastroesophageal junction cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy and granted it Priority Review.

Kanwal Raghav, MBBS, MD, discusses factors that should be considered when deciding on treatment for a patient with metastatic colorectal cancer.

In the phase 2 JACCRO GC-07 trial, patients with stage III gastric cancer who received the combination of S-1 and docetaxel in the adjuvant setting had a 29% reduction in the risk of relapse.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD, provided important highlights from the DESTINY-Gastric01 trial and explained the overall impact of the FDA approval of trastuzumab deruxtecan for oncologists treating patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric cancer or GEJ cancers.

Zev A. Wainberg, MD, explains the importance of having a chemotherapy-free option available for patients with colorectal cancer.

Pembrolizumab monotherapy demonstrated durable antitumor activity and encouraging effects on survival in an evaluation of patients with previously untreated hepatocellular carcinoma.

Andrew X. Zhu, MD, PhD, discusses the final results from the phase 3 ClarIDHy study of ivosidenib versus placebo as treatment of patients with previously treated cholangiocarcinoma and an IDH1 mutation.

In patients with previously treated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), single-agent pembrolizumab (Keytruda) maintained numerical improvement in survival (OS), updated findings randomized phase 3 KEYNOTE-240 trial show.

The combination of axitinib and octreotide LAR demonstrated activity and a tolerable safety profile in patients with advanced G1-2 extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in a phase 2/3 study.

In a phase 2 clinical trial, the oral, FGFR1-3 selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor, infigratinib correlated with promising anticancer activity in addition to manageable safety as treatment of patients with chemotherapy-refractory cholangiocarcinoma whose tumors harbor FGFR2 fusions.

The final overall survival analysis of the phase 3 ClarIDHy trial demonstrated that treatment with ivosidenib tablets achieved a 21% reduction in the risk of death in patients with IDH1-mutant cholangiocarcinoma compared with placebo.

Step counts appeared to correlate with self-reported quality of life during the first 2 weeks of treatment with SM-88 in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer, the results of a preliminary exploratory analysis from part 2 of the phase 2/3 TYME-88-Panc trial showed.

In patients with esophageal cancer, chemotherapy with or without added pembrolizumab led to similar health-related quality of life results over 18 weeks, according to findings from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-590 study.