Colorectal Cancer

Andrea Cercek, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses chemotherapy resistance in mismatch repair deficient rectal cancer.

The novel bispecific antibody ZW25 induced a disease control rate of 82% in heavily pretreated patients across several HER2-positive tumor types, according to phase I study results presented at the 2018 EORTC-NCI-AACR Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics Symposium.

Pixatimod (PG545) in combination with the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo) may benefit patients with advanced bowel cancers, including a small subset of those with colorectal cancer considered to be microsatellite stable.

Al B. Benson, MD, professor of medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses the clinical utility of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in guiding treatment decisions for patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).

Matthew Farren, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, discusses the rationale behind the combination of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and modified leucovorin/5-fluorouracil/oxaliplatin (mFOLFOX6) in patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

Juan Manuel O’Connor, MD, head, Department Gastrointestinal Oncology, Department of Clinical Oncology, Institute Alexander Fleming, Buenos Aires, discusses real-world results with regorafenib (Stivarga) in the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD, medical oncologist, Mayo Clinic, discusses the utility of next-generation sequencing in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Obesity is associated with an increased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer among women and correlates with higher rates of cancer resections in gastrointestinal malignancies across age groups.

A. David McCollum, MD, attending oncologist, Baylor University Medical Center, discusses the clinical utility of regorafenib (Stivarga) in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Andrea Cercek, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses induction chemotherapy in patients with mismatch repair deficient rectal cancer.