2024 ASCO GI Cancers Symposium
Ian Chau, MD, on Gastrointestinal Cancers: Real-World Effectiveness of Nivolumab Plus Chemotherapy
Ian Chau, MD, of The Royal Marsden Hospital, discusses reportedly the first study to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of nivolumab as a first-line treatment of advanced gastric, gastroesophageal ...
Dominik P. Modest, MD, on Colorectal Cancer: Health-Related Quality-of-Life Findings From CodeBreaK 300
Dominik P. Modest, MD, of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, discusses phase III study findings showing sotorasib plus panitumumab vs trifluridine/tipiracil or regorafenib benefits patients with chem...
Yasunobu Ishizuka, MD, on Gastric Cancer: Does Nivolumab Infusion Time of Day Matter?
Yasunobu Ishizuka, MD, of Japan’s Aichi Cancer Center, discusses study results showing that scheduling infusions of nivolumab monotherapy before mid-afternoon for patients with metastatic gastric canc...
Milind M. Javle, MD, on Cholangiocarcinoma: New Data on Tinengotinib as Monotherapy
Milind M. Javle, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses phase II results on tinengotinib, a next-generation FGFR inhibitor that seems to overcome acquired resistance and s...
Lorraine A. Chantrill, PhD, MBBS, on Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Carcinomas: First-Line Treatment With Nab-Paclitaxel Plus Carboplatin
Lorraine A. Chantrill, PhD, MBBS, of Australia’s Wollongong Hospital, New South Wales, discusses phase II findings on the combination of nab-paclitaxel plus carboplatin as a first-line treatment for p...
Jennifer Yon-Li Wo, MD, on Colorectal and Pancreatic Cancers: New Findings on SBRT With Ipilimumab and Nivolumab
Jennifer Yon-Li Wo, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the local failure rate of non-ablative hypofractionated radiation therapy in combination with the immune checkpoint inhibitors ipil...
Riccardo Lencioni, MD, on Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Transarterial Chemoembolization, Durvalumab, and Bevacizumab
Riccardo Lencioni, MD, of the University of Pisa School of Medicine, discusses phase III results from the EMERALD-1 study of durvalumab plus bevacizumab plus TACE (transarterial chemoembolization) in ...
Van K. Morris, MD, on Colon Cancer: ctDNA as a Predictive Biomarker
Van K. Morris, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses phase II results on using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as a predictive biomarker of adjuvant chemotherapy in patient...
Anant Ramaswamy, DM, on Advanced Gastric Cancers: New Findings on Adding Docetaxel to Doublet
Anant Ramaswamy, DM, of Tata Memorial Centre, discusses phase III results of a study that added docetaxel to a doublet regimen of fluorouracil or capecitabine and oxaliplatin, which did not improve ov...
Frank Kullmann, MD, on Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: Recent Data on Gemcitabine and Nab-Paclitaxel
Frank Kullmann, MD, of Germany’s Klinikum Weiden, discusses results from the ALPACA trial, which suggest a dose-reduced regimen with alternating cycles of gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine mo...
Manish A. Shah, MD, on Esophageal Cancer: Long-Term Outcomes of Pembrolizumab and Chemotherapy
Manish A. Shah, MD, of Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses phase III findings of the KEYNOTE-590 study, which shows that, after 5 years, the use of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy improved surviv...
Ian Chau, MD, on Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: New Data on Nivolumab, Ipilimumab, and Chemotherapy
Ian Chau, MD, of The Royal Marsden Hospital, discusses an analysis from the CheckMate 648 study on quality-adjusted time without symptoms and toxicity in patients with unresectable advanced esophageal...
Ken Kato, MD, PhD, on Advanced Esophageal Cancer: Biomarker Analyses From CheckMate 648
Ken Kato, MD, PhD, of Japan’s National Cancer Center Hospital, discusses the first comprehensive findings on biomarkers from the CheckMate 648 study. These results further corroborate the clinical eff...
Michael K. Gibson, MD, PhD, on Esophageal Cancer: Expert Commentary on Two Key Studies
Michael K. Gibson, MD, PhD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discusses phase III findings on chemotherapy plus camrelizumab in the ESCORT-NEO trial of patients with resectable esophageal squam...
