Colorectal Cancer

Cathy Eng, MD, FACP, FASCO, discusses the need to increase awareness regarding treating adolescents and young adults with colorectal cancer.

A. Craig Lockhart, MD, MHS, professor and associate director for Regional and Strategic Clinical Research Affiliations, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, discusses dual-immunotherapy strategies in colorectal cancer (CRC).

Ryan B. Corcoran, MD, PhD, discusses the presence of HER2 amplification in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Andrea Cercek, MD, discusses the need for treatment options in KRAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Andrea Cercek, MD, discusses the importance of molecular testing in colorectal cancer.

Benjamin Weinberg, MD, discusses the role of cetuximab in treating metastatic colorectal cancer.

Girish Putcha, MD, PhD, discusses the use of blood-based screening assays in colorectal cancer (CRC).

Third-line treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer using regorafenib plus oral fluoropyrimidine TAS-102 provides clinically meaningful disease control with toxicities consistent with the safety profiles of either agent, according to data from the phase I dose-escalation trial REMETY presented at the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

A regimen of avelumab and cetuximab plus oxaliplatin, leucovorin, and 5-fluorouracil in patients with RAS/BRAF-wildtype metastatic colorectal cancer induced a very high response rate but did not meet its primary progression-free survival end point.

Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP, sheds light on encorafenib triplet and doublet options for patients with BRAF V600E–mutant metastatic colorectal cancer and other novel regimens under investigation.

Van Morris, MD, discusses research around treatment for patients with unresectable colorectal cancer.

Investigators hope to answer a potentially paradigm-changing question in the phase II ANCHOR-CRC study (NCT03693170) of BRAF V600E–mutant colorectal cancer (CRC): Can the benefit observed with a targeted triplet in latestage disease extend to the first line?

Between 2013 and 2017, just 40% of patients with metastatic colon cancer received guideline-recommended biomarker testing that could have improved treatment decisions, according to findings from a retrospective study. Results also showed that adherence to evidence-based recommendations for genotyping was poor in academic and community settings alike.