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Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, chair, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, medical director, Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy, professor of medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discussed preliminary data with a novel combination in the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Cathy Eng, MD, professor of gastrointestinal and medical oncology, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the BEACON CRC study in patients with BRAF-mutated colorectal cancer.

The NCCN has updated their clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of patients with colorectal cancer to include the regimen of encorafenib and binimetinib plus EGFR inhibition with either cetuximab or panitumumab as a Category 2a treatment recommendation for patients with BRAF V600E–mutant metastatic colorectal cancer, after failure of 1 or 2 lines of therapy for metastatic disease.