Gastrointestinal Cancer

Johanna Bendell, MD, discusses the current and emerging treatment landscape of immunotherapy for patients with CRC.

Cathy Eng, MD, discusses optimizing sequencing beyond disease progression in CRC.

Hans-Joachim Schmoll, MD, discusses updated CHARTA findings, the current role of chemotherapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC), and his predictions for the future CRC treatment landscape.

The combination of cabiralizumab and nivolumab resulted in intriguing objective response rates in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended approval of the bevacizumab biosimilar ABP 215 for the treatment of patients across several tumor types.

Immunotherapy is being positioned as an earlier therapeutic option for patients with high levels of microsatellite instability or mismatch repair deficiency, regardless of their tumor location, expert says.

Julien Taieb, MD, head of the gastroenterology and gastrointestinal oncology department of the Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris Descartes University, discusses sidedness in metastatic colon cancer.

Steven R. Alberts, MD, professor of oncology in the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses unmet needs facing patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).

Cathy Eng, MD, professor of gastrointestinal medical oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the ongoing roles of regorafenib (Stivarga) and TAS-102 (Lonsurf) in colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment.

Tim G. Larson, MD, oncologist, Minnesota Oncology, discusses ongoing trials in colorectal cancer (CRC).

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the ongoing role and impact of regorafenib (Stivarga) in the paradigm of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in an interview during the 2017 Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium.

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 left-sided versus right-sided colorectal cancer (CRC).

Mark J. Truty, MD, MS, assistant professor of surgery, Mayo Clinic, discusses challenges with treating patients with pancreatic cancer.

Although new therapies are being rapidly introduced in the hepatocellular carcinoma field after years of clinical trial disappointments, clinicians face many challenges when treating patients with this malignancy, including delays in diagnosis and comorbidities.

Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD, professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses the response rate of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for patients with microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) colorectal cancer (CRC).

A new generation of more selective inhibitors of CDK4 and CDK6 has entered the clinic in combination therapies for patients with breast cancer. These agents also are being investigated in patients with KRAS-mutant malignancies.

Advanced esophageal cancer is a highly lethal malignancy and often spreads despite aggressive therapy.