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Romain Cohen, MD, PhD, on Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Long-Term Follow-up on Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab

2022 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

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Romain Cohen, MD, PhD, of Sorbonne University and Saint-Antoine Hospital, discusses phase II results of the GERCOR NIPICOL study, which suggests nivolumab plus ipilimumab at a fixed duration of 1 year continued to show durable activity in patients with chemoresistant microsatellite instability–high/mismatch repair–deficient metastatic colorectal cancer after 3 years of follow-up. Dr. Cohen points out there is now some question as to whether all patients need 2 years of therapy (Abstract 13).



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