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|Articles|February 5, 2015

Special Reports

  • Gastrointestinal Cancers (Issue 4)
  • Volume 4
  • Issue 1

Chemotherapy Treatment in Gastric Cancer

Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, discusses the challenges of using chemotherapy to treat patients with gastric cancer.

Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, at University Hospitals Gasthuisberg/Leuven in Leuven, Belgium, discusses the challenges of using chemotherapy to treat patients with gastric cancer.

Clinical Pearls:

  • Using trastuzumab or other anti-HER2 agents when treating patients with gastric cancer does not eliminate the need to use chemotherapy.
  • Patients with gastric cancer are often in poor health to begin with and have low tolerance levels and fast occurrances of resistance after undergoing chemotherapy.
  • There is room for growth and improvement in chemotherapy in order to determine if the treatments can contain less toxicities, which remains a challenge for patients in regards to their overall means of survival.

Articles in this issue

over 11 years ago

Expert Investigators Discuss Emerging Therapies for GI Cancers

over 11 years ago

Predictors of Toxicity in Colon Cancer Treatment Identified

over 11 years ago

Many Biliary Tract Cancers Harbor Actionable Mutations

over 11 years ago

KRAS Mutant ctDNA Assay Performance Comparable in Urine and Plasma for Advanced CRC

over 11 years ago

Safety of Regorafenib Confirmed in Patients With mCRC and High PFS

over 11 years ago

Pembrolizumab in Advanced Gastric Cancer Treatment

over 11 years ago

Onartuzumab for Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma

over 11 years ago

FOLFOXIRI plus Bevacizumab for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

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