July 03, 2021
The combination regimen was well tolerated with promising preliminary anti-tumor activity in patients with heavily pretreated esophageal cancer, who had not received immunotherapy.
July 03, 2021
“We observed much more deeper responses and more meaningful responses [in the treatment arm] compared with the placebo arm, in which 15% of the population had deep responses of ≥ 80%."
July 02, 2021
Michael J. Overman, MD, discusses the advances in testing for rare genomic alterations in colorectal cancer.
July 02, 2021
A biomarker analysis utilized liquid biopsies to find potential prognostic and predictive biomarkers for patients with BRAF V600E–mutant metastatic colorectal cancer treated with BRAF, EGFR, and/or MEK inhibitors.
July 02, 2021
The combination of paclitaxel and GSK2636771 showed encouraging antitumor activity and a manageable toxicity profile and in patients with PTEN-deficient advanced gastric cancer who progressed after first line chemotherapy.
July 02, 2021
Final overall survival and long-term safety results of the phase 3 NETTER-1 trial were presented during the World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer 2021.
July 02, 2021
Findings from the OCTOPUS Consortium of trial data have indicated that obese patients with colorectal cancer have a poorer survival from adjuvant chemotherapy treatment due to reduced treatment dose and average cumulative relative dose.
July 02, 2021
In a first-of-its-kind study, data reveal that unnecessary antibiotic use may increase the risk of colon cancer—especially in people under age 50. Findings were presented at the 2021 World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer.
July 01, 2021
Treatment with avapritinib in Chinese patients with PDGFRA D842V-mutant gastrointestinal stromal tumors revealed promising clinical benefit, according to a bridging study of the NAVIGATOR trial.
July 01, 2021
Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP, reviews the results of the phase 1b multicenter KISIMA-01 study, for which he presented preliminary results during the ESMO World Congress of Gastrointestinal Cancer 2021.