Colorectal Cancer

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.

Juan Manuel O’Connor, MD, discusses the final results of the CORRELATE regorafenib study in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, emphasizing the importance of real-world data.

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, associate director for Adult Oncology and co-leader of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the benefit of regorafenib (Stivarga) in the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).

First results from a study of neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab in patients with early-stage colon cancer found a major pathologic response achieved in all 7 patients with mismatch repair deficient tumors.