Colorectal Cancer

The FDA has granted approval of a new indication for cetuximab plus encorafenib for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with a BRAF V600E mutation, as detected by a FDA-approved test, after prior therapy.

Stacey A. Cohen, MD, discusses the shortcomings of clinical trials evaluating cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in colorectal cancer.

Joleen M. Hubbard, MD, discusses the barriers of implementing circulating tumor DNA into widespread clinical practice in colorectal cancer.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki led to improved responses in patients with higher HER2 expression at baseline, whereas responses were seen irrespective of RAS- and PIK3CA mutation status and blood tumor mutational burden levels in patients with HER2-positive, metastatic colorectal cancer.

Harveshp D. Mogal, MD, MS, FACS, DABS, FSSO, discusses the role of cytoreductive surgery in colorectal peritoneal carcinomatosis.

Adavosertib demonstrated a 65% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with active monitoring in patients with TP53-/RAS-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer following first-line chemotherapy.

Kanwal Raghav, MBBS, MD, discusses optimal dosing strategies for regorafenib in patients with colorectal cancer.

Zev A. Wainberg, MD, discusses the importance of enrolling patients with colorectal cancer to clinical trials, despite the difficulties caused by COVID-19.

Adagrasib alone or in combination with cetuximab elicited encouraging antitumor activity and safety in heavily pretreated patients with KRAS G12C–mutant colorectal cancer, according to findings from the phase 1/2 KRYSTAL-1 trial.

John L. Marshall, MD, discusses factors to consider in the third-line treatment setting for patients with colorectal cancer.

Harveshp D. Mogal, MD, MS, FACS, DABS, FSSO, discusses the importance of patient selection for cytoreductive surgery in colorectal cancer with peritoneal involvement.

Stacey A. Cohen, MD, discusses the importance of patient selection for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in colorectal cancer.

Kanwal Raghav, MBBS, MD, discusses first-line treatment options for patients with colorectal cancer.

Harveshp D. Mogal, MD, MS, FACS, DABS, FSSO, discusses the incidence and prognosis of peritoneal carcinomatosis in colorectal cancer.

Stacey A. Cohen, MD, discusses tailoring treatment approaches to individual subtypes in colorectal cancer.

The Japan Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency has approved the use of pembrolizumab in the treatment of patients with PD-L1–positive, hormone receptor–negative and HER2-negative, inoperable or recurrent breast cancer, and for single-agent use in patients with unresectable, advanced, or recurrent microsatellite instability–high colorectal cancer.

Increased intake of vitamin D was associated with a decreased risk of early-onset colorectal cancer and precursors in younger women between the ages of 25 years and 42 years.

The highly selective and potent CDK7 inhibitor SY-5609 is being tested in combination with atezolizumab in patients with molecularly defined subsets of colorectal cancer, as one of the cohorts of the ongoing, phase 1/1b INTRINSIC trial.

John L. Marshall, MD; Marwan G. Fakih, MD; and Joleen M. Hubbard, MD, highlight novel strategies in the metastatic colorectal cancer pipeline that look exciting and consider their integration into future clinical practice.

The rationale for continuing to study the combination of immunotherapies with novel tyrosine kinase inhibitors in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Marwan Fakih, MD, discusses efficacy reported with regorafenib plus nivolumab in patients with mismatch repair–proficient and microsatellite stable metastatic colorectal cancer.

Average cumulative relative dose was found to be associated with survival over average relative dose intensity in patients with colorectal cancer, highlighting that obese patients receive lower cumulative doses of adjuvant chemotherapy and therefore may be attributed to their poorer survival outcomes.

Implications for using the combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib to treat patients with metastatic colorectal cancer based on updated data from the LEAP-005 study.

Considerations for treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with the combination of nivolumab and regorafenib based on preliminary data.

Steven H. Itzkowitz, MD, discusses the importance of screening for CRC in younger adults, the results of the database analysis, and strategies for implementing early messaging in the community setting for this population.

The first participants from the United States have been dosed with LUT014, a novel, topical BRAF inhibitor in a phase 2 trial that is evaluating the agent in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who have developed dose-limiting acneiform lesions following treatment with an EGFR inhibitor.

Drs. John L. Marshall, Marwan G. Fakih, and Joleen M. Hubbard, describe the current role of chemotherapy for frontline metastatic colorectal cancer based on novel treatment advances.

Jeremy C. Jones, MD, discusses key lessons learned from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-177 trial.

Considerations for frontline immunotherapy for patients with microsatellite instability high metastatic colorectal cancer based on data from the KEYNOTE-177 and CheckMate 142 studies.

Stacey A. Cohen, MD, discusses the standardization of triplet-based chemotherapy regimens in colorectal cancer.