Gastrointestinal Cancer News

In this video Michael Cecchini, MD discussed study presented at ASCO that "puts to rest" whether asymptomatic primary tumors in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer should be resected.

Oncology clinical trials appeared to recover from declines in enrollment and activation during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study of data from two large academic centers published in Annals of Oncology.

Being married may increase the chances of long-term survival among patients with early-stage gastric cancer, according to research published in Journal of Investigative Medicine.

The effects of atezolizumab combined with a chemotherapy regimen were beneficial in terms of pathologic outcome compared with the chemotherapy regimen alone for patients with resectable esophagogastric adenocarcinoma.

There was no clinically meaningful difference in the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma between patients taking tenofovir vs. entecavir to treat chronic hepatitis B virus infection, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

President Joe Biden has appointed Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD; Mitchel Berger, MD; and Carol L. Brown, MD, FACOG, FACS, to the President’s Cancer Panel, the White House announced in a press release.

Certain racial and ethnic minority patients with cancer experienced worse treatment delays and adverse social and economic effects due to the COVID-19 pandemic than white patients, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Neoadjuvant modified FOLFIRINOX alone vs. with hypofractionated radiotherapy demonstrated favorable OS among patients with borderline resectable pancreatic cancer, according to results of a phase 2 trial published in JAMA Oncology.

A combination of nivolumab, trastuzumab and chemotherapy prolonged PFS and OS among patients with previously untreated, metastatic ERBB2-positive esophagogastric cancer, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

Long-term medical financial hardship after active cancer treatment has become an important topic in survivorship and has been evaluated in several studies.