Colorectal Cancer

The United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) has updated its 2008 recommendation for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening to include 7 CRC screening tests for average-risk, asymptomatic adults between the ages of 50 and 75 to reduce the risk of CRC mortality.

Nivolumab (Opdivo) treatment provided antitumor responses in patients with microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), whether given as a single agent or in combination with ipilimumab (Yervoy). Interim data from the phase II CheckMate-142 trial was presented at the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Updated results of the prevalence of germline cancer susceptibility gene mutations in a clinic-based series of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) were given in an oral presentation at the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Neratinib, an experimental TKI being developed for breast cancer, achieved a 36% clinical benefit rate in a phase II trial, according to a poster presented June 5, 2016 at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago.

The combination of cobimetinib (Cotellic) and atezolizumab (Tecentriq) is safe and clinically active in advanced colorectal cancer and resulted in a higher clinical response rate in patients with microsatellite stable (MSS) colorectal cancer patients than either agent alone.

Regorafenib (Stivarga) and TAS-102 have never been compared head-to-head, but the two agents are similar and a sequencing strategy incorporating both is effective, says Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD.

Survival outcomes in patients with KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) were significantly longer among those with tumors originating on the left versus the right side of the colon, according to a retrospective analysis of the phase III 80405 trial.

Precancerous colon polyps exhibit many of the same driver mutations that fuel the development of colorectal cancer (CRC), according to results of a study published in Cancer Prevention Research.

Sue Naeyaert, senior director of Biosimilars Policy, EMD Serono, discusses the long-term impact that biosimilars could potentially have on the field of oncology.

Navesh K. Sharma, DO, PhD, discusses the addition of Yttrium-90 resin microspheres to standard frontline FOLFOX-based chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab in patients with liver metastatic colorectal cancer.

Given the numerous available treatment options, the most important issue in frontline colorectal cancer (CRC) care is clarifying the goals of therapy, according to Wells Messersmith, MD.

mCRC with Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD and Tara Seery, MD