Gastrointestinal Cancer News

Cancer burden among older adults with type 2 diabetes has increased in the past 2 decades while all-cause mortality rates at all ages have decreased, according to a 20-year population-based study published in Diabetologia.

Stereotactic body radiation therapy followed by sorafenib extended survival compared with sorafenib alone among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, according to study results presented at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Patients with advanced biliary tract cancer can safely use antibiotics while benefiting from treatment with durvalumab plus gemcitabine and cisplatin, according to study results presented at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

A long course of chemoradiation therapy appeared associated with higher organ preservation rates vs. a short course among a cohort of patients with rectal cancer, according to a study presented at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

The addition of bevacizumab to trifluridine/tipiracil demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in OS vs. trifluridine/tipiracil alone among adults with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

Many patients who received a positive stool-based screening test result for colorectal cancer did not receive a follow-up colonoscopy within 1 year, according to the results of a mixed-methods cohort study.

Tislelizumab plus chemotherapy demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in OS vs. chemotherapy alone among patients with PD-L1-positive, advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Maureen E. Murphy, PhD, has been appointed deputy director of Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center at The Wistar Institute.

First-line treatment with zolbetuximab added to chemotherapy significantly extended OS and PFS among adults with certain forms of claudin-18.2-positive/HER2-negative gastric adenocarcinoma, results of the phase 3 SPOTLIGHT trial showed.

Mark A. Lewis, MD, has two special drawers in his office desk — one with notes of appreciation he has received from patients over the years and the other with his patients’ obituaries.