ESMO Gastrointestinal Cancers Congress

Bruno Sangro, MD, PhD, discusses the efficacy and safety findings from the long-term analysis of the CheckMate-459 trial in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Bruno Sangro, MD, PhD, discusses the updated findings from the phase 3 CheckMate-459 trial, which evaluated the use of nivolumab and sorafenib in the treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Results from the regorafenib dose optimization study (ReDOS) presented at the 2018 World Congress on GI Cancer established that the strategy of escalating regorafenib from 80 mg to 160 mg per day was superior to starting at a dose of 160 mg per day.

TAS-102 (trifluridine/tipiracil; Lonsurf) continued to show consistent benefits and safety in a real-world treatment setting for patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD, speaks to the progress being made with immune therapies in pancreatic cancer.

Eileen O'Reilly, MD, associate director for clinical research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the role of immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer.

Richard S. Finn, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, recaps recent second-line advancements in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Atezolizumab alone or in combination with cobimetinib failed to show superior overall survival compared with regorafenib for patients with chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

TAS-102 (trifluridine/tipiracil; Lonsurf) provided a 31% reduction in the risk of death compared with placebo in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic or advanced gastric cancer.

George P. Kim, MD, Orange Park Medical Center, discusses the results of the PRODIGE 37 trial in patients with pancreatic cancer.

George D. Demetri, MD, director, Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, senior vice president, Experimental Therapeutics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses the use of larotrectinib in patients with TRK-fusion gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.

Thierry Conroy, MD, discusses the PRODIGE 24/CCTG PA.6 trial and shares his insight on future research with this treatment regimen.

TAS-120 demonstrated a clinically meaningful benefit with a manageable toxicity profile in patients with cholangiocarcinoma harboring FGFR2 gene fusions, including patients who had progressed on an FGFR inhibitor.

Selective internal radiation therapy in combination with sorafenib (Nexavar) did not provide a significant survival improvement compared with sorafenib alone in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Treatment with second-line ramucirumab improved median overall survival by 3.1 months compared with placebo in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with alpha-fetoprotein levels ≥400 ng/ml.

Thierry Conroy, MD, medical oncologist, director, Institut de Cancerologie de Lorraine, discusses survival data with modified FOLFIRINOX in pancreatic cancer.

Richard S. Finn, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the pooled analysis of the REACH and REACH-2 studies in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Eileen O'Reilly, MD, associate director for clinical research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the role of immunotherapy in patients with pancreatic cancer.

Dominik P. Modest, MD, University of Munich, discusses an evaluation of resection in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Patrick Ott, MD, PhD, clinical director, Melanoma Center, Center for Immuno-Oncology, physician, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the CheckMate-032 study in gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer.

Ziv-aflibercept (Zaltrap) prolonged overall survival compared to placebo across subgroups of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with wild-type and mutated RAS, KRAS, and BRAF genes.

While expected improvements in survival did not emerge with SIRT plus chemotherapy, an unanticipated benefit was observed with SIRT in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Guillem Argiles, MD, staff member, Gastrointestinal Malignancies Division, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, discusses a carcinoembryonic antigen T-cell bispecific antibody.

Bert O’Neil, MD, the Joseph W. and Jackie J. Cusick Professor of Oncology, professor of medicine, and director of the Phase I and Gastrointestinal Oncology Programs at Indiana University, discusses napabucasin with FOLFIRI and bevacizumab (Avastin) in colorectal cancer.

In a central evaluation for surgical treatment options in the FIRE-3 study results, investigators set out to determine the number of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who had resectable disease during systemic first-line therapy.

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, FACP, associate director for Adult Oncology and co-leader of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses immunotherapy in gastrointestinal cancers.

Hans-Joachim Schmoll, MD, head, Department of Oncology and Hematology, associate professor, Internal Medicine, Hematology/ Oncology, University Hospital Halle, discusses the results of the CHARTA study in colorectal cancer.

The novel stemness inhibitor napabucasin in combination with different standard chemotherapy backbones demonstrated promising activity in metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma and metastatic colorectal cancer.