Medical Oncology

Gastric/GEJ Cancer

Questions discussed in this category

What are your top takeaways from ASCO GI 2023?

What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice? ...

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How would you approach a patient with Stage III gastric cancer and poor performance status who had large residual disease (ypT4N1) after neoadjuvant capecitabine and was later found to be MSI-H?

The ICI adjuvant data we have so far doesn't clearly separate MSI-H disease from all comers.

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What are your top takeaways in GI Cancers from ASCO 2023?

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Do you repeat molecular testing at progression in gastric/GEJ tumors or is the initial pathology sufficient for entire treatment course?

Do you rebiopsy or use a liquid assay?

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Papers discussed in this category

J Clin Oncol, 2022 Nov 15

Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Anti-Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Treatment-Naive Patients With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Low Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma: Exploratory Cohort Results in a Phase II Trial.

The New England journal of medicine, 2013-10-31

Increased survival in pancreatic cancer with nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine.

N. Engl. J. Med.,

FOLFIRINOX or Gemcitabine as Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer.

Lancet, 2021 Jun 05

First-line nivolumab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for advanced gastric, gastro-oesophageal junction, and oesophageal adenocarcinoma (CheckMate 649): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial.

Eur J Cancer, 2018 Aug 24

A randomised phase 2 trial of nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine with or without capecitabine and cisplatin in locally advanced or borderline resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

NEJM Evidence, 2022 Jun 1

Durvalumab plus Gemcitabine and Cisplatin in Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer

N Engl J Med, 2023 Jun 04

Preoperative Treatment of Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer.

Lancet Oncol, 2021 May 04

Trastuzumab deruxtecan (DS-8201) in patients with HER2-expressing metastatic colorectal cancer (DESTINY-CRC01): a multicentre, open-label, phase 2 trial.

Lancet Oncol, 2023 Jun 02

Zanidatamab for HER2-amplified, unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer (HERIZON-BTC-01): a multicentre, single-arm, phase 2b study.

Future oncology (London, England), 2022 May 10

MATTERHORN: phase III study of durvalumab plus FLOT chemotherapy in resectable gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancer.

J. Clin. Oncol., 2019 Sep 12

Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis of the Value of Microsatellite Instability As a Biomarker in Gastric Cancer.

JAMA Oncol,

Mismatch Repair Deficiency, Microsatellite Instability, and Survival: An Exploratory Analysis of the Medical Research Council Adjuvant Gastric Infusional Chemotherapy (MAGIC) Trial.

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