{"id":27499,"date":"2021-09-30T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/2021-asco-annual-meeting-research-round-up-advances-in-treating-brain-tumors-esophageal-cancer-and-colorectal-cancer\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:14:28","slug":"2021-asco-annual-meeting-research-round-up-advances-in-treating-brain-tumors-esophageal-cancer-and-colorectal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/2021-asco-annual-meeting-research-round-up-advances-in-treating-brain-tumors-esophageal-cancer-and-colorectal-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Research Round Up: Advances in Treating Brain Tumors, Esophageal Cancer, and Colorectal Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the annual Research Round Up series, Cancer.Net Associate Editors answer the question, \u201cWhat was the most exciting or practice-changing research in your field presented at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting?\u201d<\/em> In this episode, 2 experts discuss new research from the meeting on brain tumors and gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.<\/p>\n

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New research in brain tumors<\/h3>\n

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Dr. Glenn Lesser, the 2021 Cancer.Net Associate Editor for Central Nervous System Tumors<\/a>, discusses the results from 2 studies about brain tumors<\/a>. First, he discusses the phase 2 Alliance A071601 clinical trial<\/a>, which was evaluating whether treating people with newly diagnosed papillary craniopharyngioma<\/a> with a BRAF V600E<\/em> genetic mutation using the targeted therapy drugs vemurafenib (Zelboraf) and cobimetinib (Cotellic) helped shrink their tumors. [3:18] Next, Dr. Lesser discusses the long-term results from the phase 2 GEINO 14-01 clinical trial<\/a>, which was studying whether prolonging treatment with the chemotherapy drug temozolomide (Temodar) for people with newly diagnosed glioblastoma helped them live longer. [8:40]<\/p>\n

Advances in treating esophageal and colorectal cancers<\/h3>\n

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Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt, the 2021 Cancer.Net Associate Editor for GI Cancers<\/a>, discusses the results from 3 studies in this field, including 1 about esophageal cancer and 2 about colorectal cancer. The first study, the phase 3 CheckMate 648 clinical trial<\/a>, compared 3 treatments for people with advanced, recurrent, or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma<\/a> to see which helped them live longer and slow the cancer\u2019s growth: the immunotherapy nivolumab (Opdivo) with chemotherapy, nivolumab with another immunotherapy called ipilimumab (Yervoy), or chemotherapy alone. [15:31] The next study discussed, the phase 2 DESTINY-CRC01 clinical trial<\/a>, studied whether the targeted therapy drug trastuzumab deruxtecan (Enhertu) helped shrink the tumors of people with HER2-expressing metastatic colorectal cancer<\/a>. [17:06] Finally, Dr. Meyerhardt discusses the FOCUS4-N clinical trial<\/a>, which was seeing whether maintenance chemotherapy<\/a> helped people with metastatic colorectal cancer live longer compared with active monitoring, which is closely watching a person\u2019s disease for signs of growth before giving more treatment. [19:17]<\/p>\n

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