ESMO Gastrointestinal Cancers Congress

Certepetide plus gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel was safe and effective in patients with untreated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Rachel Riechelmann, MD, PhD, discusses clinical guidance for the management of refractory carcinoid syndrome in functional GI neuroendocrine tumors.

Data from the phase 2 REGINA trial support further investigation of neoadjuvant regorafenib, nivolumab, and SCRT in locally advanced rectal cancer.

Patients with resectable gastric cancers achieved superior OS and pCR rates with perioperative pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone.

Tislelizumab plus chemotherapy improved OS in patients with unresectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and a CPS or TAP score of at least 1 vs 1%.

IBI343 was well tolerated and demonstrated signs of efficacy in patients with CLDN18.2-positive advanced gastric/GEJ adenocarcinoma.

Mitazalimab plus mFOLFIRINOX yielded early efficacy signals and a manageable safety profile for the frontline treatment of patients with mPDAC.

The EMA recommends durvalumab plus chemotherapy, followed by olaparib and durvalumab for pMMR endometrial cancer, and single-agent durvalumab for dMMR disease.

Durvalumab plus chemotherapy sustained an overall survival benefit vs chemotherapy alone in locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer.

Concordance between TAP score and CPS at matched thresholds indicate their viability for assessing PD-L1 expression in advanced gastric cancers.

The EA2201 trial evaluated nivolumab, ipilimumab, and short-course radiation therapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer.

Botensilimab and balstilimab demonstrated pathological responses across subsets of patients with resectable colon cancer.

Liver transplantation plus chemotherapy demonstrated no concerning safety signals or long-term deterioration in QOL in patients with definitively unresectable CRC liver metastasis.

Switch ramucirumab/paclitaxel maintenance improved PFS and OS outcomes vs chemotherapy continuation in HER2-negative gastric or GEJ cancer.

TAS-102 followed by regorafenib is an optimal sequence vs regorafenib followed by TAS-102 in select patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

HRQOL data from the CheckMate 8HW trial may support the use of nivolumab and ipilimumab as first-line treatment for patients with MSI-H or dMMR metastatic colorectal cancer.

Lunresertib plus FOLFIRI was safe and produced responses in advanced gastrointestinal tumors harboring CCNE1 amplifications or FBXW7 alterations.

Lutetium Lu 177 dotatate with octreotide led to a clinical benefit in PFS and ORR regardless of tumor grade or primary origin in advanced grade 2 and grade 3 GEP-NETs.

Treatment with intra-arterial gemcitabine led to an improvement in overall survival compared with continued treatment with intravenous gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer following sequential treatment with IV gemcitabine, nab-paclitaxel, and radiotherapy.

The dual immunotherapy combination comprised of nivolumab given at 1 mg/kg and ipilimumab given at 3 mg/kg provided durable responses and long-term survival benefit in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma following treatment with sorafenib.

Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD, discusses next steps for durvalumab in combination with gemcitabine plus cisplatin in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer.

Recent data highlight the value of the newly approved indications for nivolumab plus ipilimumab and nivolumab plus chemotherapy for patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Pembrolizumab monotherapy continued to demonstrate durable antitumor activity with promising overall survival in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who received prior treatment with sorafenib, according to updated data from cohort 1 of the phase 2 KEYNOTE-224 trial.

Treatment with frontline panitumumab and mFOLFOX6 led to a significant improvement in overall survival, plus higher response rates and R0 resection rates, compared with bevacizumab and mFOLFOX6 in patients with RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer.

After HER2 was established as an actionable target in gastric cancer, its amplification has become a key biomarker of interest for other gastrointestinal cancers.

John H. Strickler, MD, discusses the efficacy of tucatinib plus trastuzumab in HER2-positive colorectal cancer.

Kohei Shitara, MD, discusses the rationale for the phase 3 DESTINY-Gastric04 trial in patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer or gastro-esophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Patients with previously treated metastatic HER2-positive colorectal cancer experienced clinically meaningful and durable responses to treatment with tucatinib plus trastuzumab, according to data from the phase 2 MOUNTAINEER trial.