Gastrointestinal Cancer

OncLive® will be LIVE with OncLive® News Network: On Location at the 2022 ESMO Congress. Each day, we will broadcast a series of interviews with top thought leaders, to learn their thoughts and reactions to data presented across oncology during the conference.

Expert perspectives on how to best manage adverse events associated with trastuzumab emtansine while treating patients with breast or gastric cancers.

Shared insight on the clinical utility of trastuzumab emtansine in the second- and third-line settings of breast and gastric cancers.

Second-line treatment with ramucirumab produced an overall survival benefit vs placebo in Chinese patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, irrespective of the presence of extrahepatic spread, according to findings from an exploratory analysis of the phase 3 REACH and REACH-2 trials.

Data from a recent analysis revealed that nearly 1 in 7 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma experience treatment delays, with higher odds observed in Black patients and those living in high poverty neighborhoods.

The sequential treatment of regorafenib followed by nivolumab was found to have an acceptable toxicity profile in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who progressed on and tolerated first-line sorafenib, according to early data from the phase 1/2a GOING trial.

The FDA has approved durvalumab (Imfinzi) in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin in adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancers.

Shifting focus to a patient profile of HER2+ metastatic breast cancer treated with trastuzumab emtansine, oncology nurse experts review risk of peripheral neuropathy and its management.

Closing out their conversation on the first patient profile, oncology nurse experts consider sequencing therapy following trastuzumab deruxtecan in both breast and GI cancers.

Several inroads have been made in the realm of gastrointestinal cancers, with novel immunotherapy combinations representing a significant advance spanning several tumor types.

Larotrectinib produced durable responses in patients with NTRK fusion–positive locally advanced or metastatic gastrointestinal cancer, particularly in those with colorectal cancer.

Comprehensive insight to the selection and education of patients for whom ADC therapy is an option in breast or gastric cancers, with regard for pulmonary risk status.

Focused conversation on the occurrence of interstitial lung disease in patients on antibody drug conjugate therapy for breast or gastric cancers.

Closing out their discussion on hepatocellular carcinoma, expert panelists consider future directions in care.

Niraparib plus ipilimumab maintenance therapy elicited encouraging progression-free survival results in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who achieved a stable response to platinum-based chemotherapy.

The China National Medical Products Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation has accepted for review a supplemental biologics application seeking the approval of tislelizumab plus chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Wungki Park, MD, discussed the rationale of targeting CLDN18.2 in patients with pancreatic cancer, preclinical data supporting the use of zolbetuximab in this patient population, and the key objectives of the ongoing phase 2 trial

Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab followed by adjuvant nivolumab elicited positive pathologic complete response rates in patients with locally advanced resectable mismatch repair–deficient and/or microsatellite instability–high gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Drs Goldberg and Sussman discuss key findings from their research on rates of gastrointestinal mortality, the factors that could contribute to these differences, and ways these disparities can be addressed.

Contextualizing the use of T-DXd in breast cancer and gastric cancers respectively, panelists highlight optimal management of adverse events in these settings.

After reviewing the historical use of ADCs, panelists discuss the first patient profile of HER2+ metastatic breast cancer managed with trastuzumab deruxtecan.

Successful, established immunotherapies that have been approved for use in the metastatic setting are rapidly moving forward into the adjuvant and neoadjuvant settings, and novel agents are emerging in later lines.

Comprehensive insight on later-line immunotherapy and combination strategies available for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Expert panelists consider which therapy they would use following failure of atezolizumab + bevacizumab in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

At the start of his career, Weijing Sun, MD, FACP, was motivated to explore potential new treatments for gastrointestinal malignancies, and is now an internationally known GI cancer expert.