Gastrointestinal Cancer

Axel Grothey, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses the effectiveness of bevacizumab beyond disease progression in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Richard Kim, MD, medical oncologist, Gastrointestinal Oncology Department at Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the use of ziv-aflibercept (Zaltrap) for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

A consensus panel issues a set of discharge warning instructions regarding colorectal surgery.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the promising results and future investigation of MET inhibition in hepatocellular carcinoma using cabozantinib and tivantinib.

Johanna Bendell, MD, Director of GI Cancer Research Program, Associate Director, Drug Development Program, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses c-MET inhibition in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Axel Grothey, MD, from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, discusses a survey that examined the perceived benefits and use of adjuvant oxaliplatin in colon cancer.

James C. Yao, MD, from the MD Anderson Cancer Center, describes the administration of the mTOR inhibitor everolimus in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.

Paul Ruff, MD, from the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, discusses a time-course analysis of overall survival following treatment with ziv-aflibercept in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, as observed in the VELOUR trial.

Richard Kim, MD, medical oncologist, Gastrointestinal Oncology Department at Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses studies investigating regorafenib (Stivarga) in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Katsuhiko Uesaka, MD, PhD, from the Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital in Japan, discusses the JASPAC-01 study that compared gemcitabine to S-1 in Asian patients with resected pancreatic cancer.

Hugo Ford, MD, from the Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, describes results from the phase III COUGAR-02 study that examined second-line docetaxel in patients with advanced gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a study that examined the utility of doxorubicin-eluting beads in hepatic arterial embolization as a treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Adding nab-paclitaxel to gemcitabine improves survival compared with gemcitabine alone in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Ramucirumab significantly extended overall survival as a second-line agent in patients with metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma that progressed on first-line therapy.

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer whose disease had progressed despite treatment with oxaliplatin experienced an improvement in survival by switching to a regimen of ziv-aflibercept plus FOLFIRI.

Axel Grothey, MD, from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, discusses the time course of adverse events following treatment with regorafenib, as observed in the CORRECT study.

Adjuvant chemotherapy with the oral fluoropyrimidine S-1 improved survival versus standard postoperative gemcitabine in Asian patients with pancreatic cancer, according to an interim analysis from a phase III trial conducted in Japan.

Ramesh K. Ramanathan, MD, from the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center, discusses the phase III MPACT study that examined gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel in patients with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.

William M. Grady, MD, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses results from a study that examined the association of intrinsic subtypes of colorectal cancer with prognosis, chemotherapy response, and other factors.

A simple blood draw could lead to life-prolonging adjustments in treatment for patients with pancreatic cancer, the authors of a study have found.

Using a new classification system that categorizes colorectal cancers by tumor gene expression patterns, researchers have determined that tumor prognosis and response to adjuvant chemotherapy in CRC vary according to molecular subtype.

Patients with advanced esophagogastric adenocarcinoma who received docetaxel as a second-line therapy experienced a longer period of overall survival as well as a better quality of life compared with patients who received active symptom control.

A retrospective analysis of the potential benefits of surgery following treatment with imatinib (Gleevec) suggests a clear benefit in both OS and PFS in patients with metastatic or recurrent GIST when compared with those who received imatinib therapy alone.

A combination of maintenance bevacizumab plus standard second-line chemotherapy appears to be an effective strategy in managing patients with metastatic colorectal cancer after disease progression

Randall F. Holcombe, MD, Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center, speaks about the use of aflibercept in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.