Colorectal Cancer

Experts in metastatic colorectal cancer discuss when and in which patients to use a chemotherapy-free treatment interval.

Axel Grothey, MD, and John Marshall, MD, discuss strategies for optimizing first-line treatment in metastatic colorectal cancer and the role of adjuvant therapy.

January 27, 2021 - The combination of the polo-like kinase 1 inhibitor, onvansertib, with FOLFIRI and bevacizumab was found to have preliminary activity and favorable tolerability when used as a second-line treatment for patients with KRAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Kanwal Raghav, MBBS, MD, discusses his approach to sequencing therapies for patients with resectable and unresectable colorectal cancer.

January 26, 2021 — Patients with colorectal cancer who had molecular residual disease positivity immediately after surgery were found to have a high risk of disease recurrence and longitudinal monitoring increased the predictive power of circulating tumor DNA.

January 26, 2021 - The European Commission has approved single-agent pembrolizumab for use in the frontline treatment of patients with metastatic microsatellite instability–high or mismatch repair deficient colorectal cancer.

John L. Marshall, MD, discusses recent changes to the adjuvant treatment landscape in colorectal cancer.

John H. Strickler, MD, discusses dosing strategies with regorafenib in colorectal cancer.

Nageshwara Arvind Dasari, MD, discusses the potential clinical implications with fruquintinib in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Using real-world data from more than 4000 patients with common cancers, an algorithm was able to detect variations in care that, if reduced, could result in a median savings of $26,773 per patient.

Joleen M. Hubbard, MD, discusses sequencing challenges regarding EGFR inhibitors in colorectal cancer.

Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD, FACP, discusses indicators of progression in colorectal cancer.

Axel Grothey, MD, and John Marshall, MD, discuss first-line treatment options in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Axel Grothey, MD, discusses factors that influence treatment selection in patients with mCRC.

Daniel H. Ahn, DO, discusses the growing role of circulating tumor DNA in colorectal cancer.

Zarnie Lwin, MBBS, FRACP, discusses patient selection, including those with colorectal cancer, for the phase 2 LEAP-005 study.

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, FACP, discusses the promise of circulating tumor DNA in colorectal cancer.

Prakash Pandalai, MD, discusses outcomes with adjuvant hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in patients with colorectal cancer.

Kanwal Raghav, MBBS, MD, discusses the role of molecular profiling in treatment selection for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

January 16, 2021 - Trifluridine/tipiracil, when used in combination with bevacizumab, led to an improvement in overall survival over capecitabine/bevacizumab in the frontline treatment of patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer who are not eligible for standard chemotherapy.

January 16, 2021 - Frontline use of pembrolizumab monotherapy significantly improved progression-free survival, while demonstrating superior safety, compared with chemotherapy in patients with microsatellite-instability high/mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer.

The combination of the anti-angiogenic multikinase inhibitor lenvatinib plus the anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab demonstrated promising antitumor activity and a manageable safety profile in previously treated patients with advanced gastric cancer, advanced metastatic microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair colorectal cancer, and advanced biliary tract cancers

January 15, 2021 - As the incidence of colorectal cancer in patients under 50-years-old increases, overall health-related quality of life among younger survivors is poorer, with social and functional well-being suffering more as treatment duration grows longer.

January 15, 2021 - Anlotinib, a multitarget kinase inhibitor, was found to significantly improve progression-free survival with a manageable safety profile when used in Chinese patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

Phuong L. Mai, MD, discusses barriers of genetic testing in colorectal cancer.

Prakash Pandalai, MD, discusses the role of HIPEC in CRC peritoneal carcinomatosis and data from the PRODIGE 7 and PROPHYLOCHIP-PRODIGE 15 trials.

Michael J. Cavnar, MD, highlights the role of surgery in colon cancer, the role of tumor sidedness in informing surgical decisions, and research efforts that are being done to evaluate the utility of hepatic artery infusion pumps.

Myriam Chalabi, MD, discusses the utility of microsatellite instability (MSI) testing in colorectal cancer,

The addition of adjuvant oxaliplatin to fluoropyridine improves overall survival and disease-free survival compared with fluoropyridine alone in patients with stage III colon cancer with microsatellite instability.

Myriam Chalabi, MD, highlights the importance of testing for microsatellite instability and mismatch repair deficiency in colorectal cancer.