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Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, on Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Quality of Life Results on Encorafenib, Cetuximab, and Binimetinib

2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

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Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses phase III findings from the BEACON CRC trial, which had demonstrated that the triplet regimen of encorafenib, cetuximab, and binimetinib significantly improved overall survival in patients with a BRAF V600E mutation. The new analysis showed that the regimen also led to substantial improvement in patient-reported quality of life compared with current standard of care (Abstract 8).



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