Why are gastrointestinal cancer patients getting younger?
Research is moving forward to adapt clinical practice to a new wave of early-onset cases of cancer in the digestive tract
Locally advanced gastrointestinal cancers: moving forward in the neoadjuvant setting
Recent results from research have changed the treatment paradigm for some digestive tumours, but further evidence is needed to finetune the neoadjuvant approach
Research in upper gastrointestinal cancers makes a leap forward
In the last few years, study findings have changed clinical practice and offered new opportunities of care to many patients
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy does not improve survival in pancreatic cancer
In the NORPACT-1 study, adjuvant FOLFORINOX shows no additional benefit compared to upfront surgery in patients with resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Adjuvant immunotherapy reduces relapse risk in resected or ablated hepatocellular cancer
Data from the IMbrave050 study show benefits of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in terms of disease recurrence, but long-term data are needed
Triplet therapy does not outperform doublet treatment first line in metastatic pancreatic cancer
Results from the JCOG1611-GENERATE trial fuel the debate around the preferred option in this setting
New treatment paradigms may offer advances in pancreatic cancer treatments
Neoadjuvant, perioperative, targeted and combined treatment approaches have shown potential benefit for patients with this aggressive disease, but further research is needed
Advanced pancreatic cancer: is triple chemotherapy into question?
Results presented at ESMO Congress 2023 open-up an interesting debate on the use of currently recommended treatment regimens
Data are still insufficient to recommend immune checkpoint inhibitors in perioperative therapy for gastric/gastro-oesophageal junction cancers
The impact of immunotherapy on disease progression and survival remains uncertain, but biomarker selection may be the future
First-line pembrolizumab combination significantly improves PFS in HER2-positive metastatic G/GEJ adenocarcinoma
Adding immunotherapy to standard of care shows benefit compared with placebo and is confirmed to be practice-changing for this patient population