Gastrointestinal Cancer

Michael A. Morse, MD, professor, Medicine, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses factors that should be taken into consideration when sequencing agents in metastatic colorectal cancer.

John L. Marshall, MD, chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital director, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancer, discusses the specificity now required in the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

William R. Jarnagin, MD, FACS, chief, Hepatopancreatobiliary Service, Benno C. Schmidt Chair, Surgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the progression of surgery in treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Ian Chau, MD, consultant medical oncologist, Royal Marsden Hospital, discusses finding with the combination of ramucirumab (Cyramza) plus pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in gastric or gastroesophageal (GEJ) cancer.

Michael J. Overman, MD, discusses updated findings from the single-agent nivolumab CheckMate-142 cohort and combination data for nivolumab/ipilimumab from the pivotal trial.

Michael J. Overman, MD, associate professor, department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses immunotherapy and microsatellite instability (MSI) testing in colorectal caner (CRC).

Alpelisib (BYL719) induced a disease control rate of 58.2% and stable disease rate of 52.2% in patients with advanced solid tumors.

Jennifer A. Chan, MD, discusses the significance of the phase II results of cabozantinib in patients with carcinoid tumors and pancreatic NETs.

Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD, professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses the phase II regorafenib (Stivarga) dose optimization study (ReDOS) in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Matthew Kulke, MD, discusses the evolving treatment paradigm for patients with neuroendocrine tumors.

Michael Pishvaian, MD, PhD, director, Phase I Clinical Program, co-director of the Ruesch Center Pancreatic Cancer Program Medical Oncology, Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancer, Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the background of a study investigating molecular alterations for patients with pancreatic cancer.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses how the potential approval of cabozantinib (Cabometyx) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) could affect the treatment landscape in liver cancer.

Arun S. Singh, MD, associate professor, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the future of immunotherapy in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).

William R. Jarnagin, MD, FACS, chief, Hepatopancreatobiliary Service, Benno C. Schmidt Chair, Surgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the surgical barriers in treating patients with colorectal cancer that has metastasized outside of the liver.