ESMO Gastrointestinal Cancers Congress

Philip A. Philip, MD, PhD, FRCP, discusses unmet needs for patients with pancreatic cancer, emerging targets and agents in the space, and his hopes for future developments in the field.

The combination of tislelizumab and chemotherapy demonstrated a superior overall survival benefit compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with metastatic or unresectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

The addition of durvalumab to gemcitabine and cisplatin demonstrated an improvement in overall survival vs gemcitabine and cisplatin plus placebo as frontline therapy in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer, regardless of primary tumor location.

The combination of botensilimab and balstilimab elicited deep objective responses with evidence of durability and encouraging tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with microsatellite stable, metastatic colorectal cancer.

A second-line combination regimen comprised of RGX-202-01, FOLFIRI and bevacizumab demonstrated an encouraging efficacy signal and a favorable toxicity profile in patients with KRAS-mutant colorectal cancer.

Richard D. Kim, MD, discusses the efficacy of and next steps for a phase 1/1b study with regorafenib and nivolumab in patients with mismatch repair proficient advanced refractory colorectal cancer.

Infigratinib conferred a clinically meaningful progression-free survival and overall response rate benefit when administered as a third- and later-line treatment for patients with FGFR2 fusion–positive cholangiocarcinoma.

Zev. A. Wainberg, MD, discusses findings from a phase 1/2 study of NALIRIFOX in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

EDP1503, an investigational monoclonal microbial product, was safe and well-tolerated when administered in combination with pembrolizumab (Keytruda), and mechanistically drove some of the patient responses seen in a phase 1/2 study.

Harry H. Yoon, MD, discusses the updated results of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-061 trial in advanced gastric/gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer.

Irinotecan monotherapy demonstrated similar clinical activity and improved safety compared with capecitabine plus irinotecan in patients with advanced gallbladder cancer, representing a potential second-line treatment for frail patients.

Anant Ramaswamy, MD, discusses a phase 2 multicenter clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of capecitabine plus irinotecan versus irinotecan monotherapy in advanced gallbladder cancer.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, discusses the design and aim of the PROOF trial in advanced cholangiocarcinoma.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, discusses key eligibility criteria for the phase 3 PROOF trial in cholangiocarcinoma.

The safety and efficacy of maintenance olaparib in patients with BRCA1/2-mutated metastatic pancreatic cancer proved to be consistent irrespective of age, according to results of a subgroup analysis from the pivotal phase 3 POLO trial.

Yu Sunakawa, MD, PhD, further discusses the early real-world data from the DELIVER trial with nivolumab in patients with gastric/GEJ cancer and provided insight into what future analyses will examine.

Manish R. Patel, DO, further discusses next steps for entrectinib, as well as the need for genetic testing to identify uncommon gene rearrangements in GI malignancies.

Bruno Sangro, MD, PhD, discusses the efficacy and safety findings from a study of combination durvalumab and tremelimumab, as well as the clinical need for alternative combination regimens in advanced hepatcellular carcinoma.

The regimen of liposomal irinotecan plus 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin plus oxaliplatin demonstrated a tolerable safety profile with promising antitumor activity when used as frontline treatment in patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

The combination of atezolizumab and bevacizumab demonstrated comparable clinical activity and safety versus sorafenib in older and younger patients with previously untreated, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Manish R. Patel, DO, discusses the role of entrectinib in gastrointestinal malignancies.

Bruno Sangro, MD, PhD, discusses the efficacy and safety findings from the long-term analysis of the CheckMate-459 trial in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Bruno Sangro, MD, PhD, discusses the updated findings from the phase 3 CheckMate-459 trial, which evaluated the use of nivolumab and sorafenib in the treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Results from the regorafenib dose optimization study (ReDOS) presented at the 2018 World Congress on GI Cancer established that the strategy of escalating regorafenib from 80 mg to 160 mg per day was superior to starting at a dose of 160 mg per day.

TAS-102 (trifluridine/tipiracil; Lonsurf) continued to show consistent benefits and safety in a real-world treatment setting for patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD, speaks to the progress being made with immune therapies in pancreatic cancer.

Eileen O'Reilly, MD, associate director for clinical research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the role of immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer.

Richard S. Finn, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, recaps recent second-line advancements in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Atezolizumab alone or in combination with cobimetinib failed to show superior overall survival compared with regorafenib for patients with chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

TAS-102 (trifluridine/tipiracil; Lonsurf) provided a 31% reduction in the risk of death compared with placebo in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic or advanced gastric cancer.