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Patients with appendiceal adenocarcinoma face increased risk of secondary cancers, including colorectal, within 10 years, per 2025 ASCO GI findings.

Ajay Goel, PhD, AGAF, discusses how the development and validation of novel non-invasive biomarkers can improve early detection and ultimately impact patient outcomes for patients.

Tislelizumab combined with irinotecan, paclitaxel, oxaliplatin, and 5-FU/leucovorin proved effective with manageable safety as frontline therapy for advanced HER2-negative, mismatch repair–proficient gastric and GEJ adenocarcinoma in the SYLT-023 trial.

SHR-1701, a PD-L1 and TGF-ß targeting agent, reduced chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression in patients with HER2-negative gastric/GEJ adenocarcinoma.

Evorpacept plus trastuzumab, paclitaxel, and ramucirumab showed improved survival and response rates over TRP alone in HER2-positive gastric/GEJ cancer.

The phase 3 CheckMate 649 trial showed that nivolumab plus chemotherapy significantly improved long-term overall survival in Chinese patients with advanced gastric, gastroesophageal junction, and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

5-year follow-up results from the phase 3 CheckMate 649 trial showed sustained efficacy with frontline nivolumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone in patients with gastric cancers.

In patients with advanced ESCC treated with first-line tislelizumab plus chemotherapy, deeper responses and longer time to maximum response were linked to improved overall survival.

The combination of everolimus plus lanreotide showed an improvement in progression-free survival and an acceptable safety profile vs everolimus monotherapy in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.

Here are the most anticipated abstracts to keep an eye on going into the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

A regimen using the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings did not improve outcomes in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

The phase 3 EMBER-3 trial showed imlunestrant improved PFS over SOC endocrine therapy in ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer with ESR1 mutations, though not significantly in the overall population.

A phase 2 trial showed ctDNA detection in HR-positive early breast cancer was linked to larger tumors, higher residual cancer burden, and increased recurrence after neoadjuvant endocrine therapy.

An analysis of phase 3 trials found tamoxifen significantly reduced 15-year ipsilateral breast recurrence in patients with “good risk” DCIS treated without radiation therapy.

In the phase 3 EUROPA trial, exclusive postoperative radiation therapy led to better health-related quality of life and fewer treatment-related adverse events in older patients with stage I luminal-like breast cancer at 24 months.

Hope S. Rugo, MD, FASCO, discusses how the combination of elacestrant and abemaciclib compares with other treatment options for patients with advanced breast cancer, whether estrogen receptor-positive or HER2-negative.

Progression-free survival was superior with first-line maintenance of palbociclib in HR-positive, HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

A study of 9,146 patients found no OS difference among first-line CDK4/6 inhibitor combinations for HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer, presented at SABCS 2024.

Virginia G. Kaklamani, MD, DSc, discusses how effective elacestrant (Orserdu) is in CDK4/6 inhibitor-naive estrogen receptor-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer treatment.

In the phase 2 SOLTI VALENTINE trial, patritumab deruxtecan with or without letrozole showed similar efficacy to multiagent chemotherapy in HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer with fewer severe adverse events.

Adverse events associated with ponatinib in CML and ALL were shown to have decreased significantly since its approval, following various risk management measures.

Adjuvant olaparib continued to show a strong efficacy benefit in patients with BRCA1/2 mutation–positive, HER2-negative high-risk breast cancer, according to 6-year data from the OlympiA trial.

SHR-A1811 showed promising antitumor activity and acceptable tolerability in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, according to results of the phase 2 FASCINATE-N trial.

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, FASCO, discusses how fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki compares with physician’s choice of chemotherapy in estrogen receptor-positive/HER2-low breast cancer.

Immediate surgery significantly lowered local recurrence rates in elderly patients with breast cancer compared with delayed surgery, according to a meta-analysis presented at SABCS 2024.

Selinexor with ruxolitinib demonstrated encouraging efficacy with a manageable safety profile in patients with myelofibrosis who were previously treated with ruxolitinib.

Adding tafasitamab to lenalidomide and rituximab significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma.

"[Patients with] mantle cell lymphoma in first complete response with undetectable MRD did not benefit from consolidative autologous transplant," said Timothy Fenske, MD, MS.

“These long-term data support axicabtagene ciloleucel as a highly effective therapeutic approach for patients with relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, with curative potential in patients with follicular lymphoma,” said Sattva S. Neelapu, MD.

The novel Bruton tyrosine kinase degrader BGB-16673 shows promise in relapsed/refractory Waldenström macroglobulinemia previously exposed to BTK inhibitors, and in heavily pretreated patients with R/R chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma.