Colorectal Cancer | Specialty

The OncLive Colorectal Cancer condition center page is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights on colorectal cancer treatment and management, with a focus on novel therapeutic strategies including checkpoint inhibitors and TKIs across lines of therapy. This page features news articles, interviews in written and video format, and podcasts that focus on unmet needs, treatment advances, and ongoing research in colorectal cancer.

Management, Etiology of Younger Patients With CRC Require Deeper Understanding

March 31st 2020

The etiology and overall management of patients with early-onset colorectal cancer needs to be better understood and personalized, respectively, explained Andrea Cercek, MD, in a presentation during the 5th Annual School of Gastrointestinal Oncology™.

Dr. Overman on Choosing Between Regorafenib and TAS-102 in CRC

March 28th 2020

Michael J. Overman, MD, discusses factors to consider when choosing between regorafenib and TAS-102 in the third-line treatment of patients with colorectal cancer.

Dr. Nelson on the CheckMate-142 Trial in MSI-H/dMMR mCRC

March 27th 2020

Douglas A. Nelson, MD, discusses results from the CheckMate-142 in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Dr. Mizrahi on Optimal Sequencing in BRAF V600E-Mutant mCRC

March 26th 2020

Jonathan Mizrahi, MD, discusses optimal sequencing in patients with BRAF V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer.

Dr. Armaghany on the Importance of the NCI-MATCH Trial in CRC

March 26th 2020

Tannaz Armaghany, MD, discusses the importance of NCI-MATCH trial in colorectal cancer.

Dr. Nelson on QOL Data From the BEACON CRC Trial in mCRC

March 26th 2020

Douglas A. Nelson, MD, discusses the quality-of-life data from the phase III BEACON CRC trial in metastatic colorectal cancer.

FLASCO Faculty Flesh Out Case Studies in GI Cancers

March 25th 2020

Atif Hussein, MD, and A. Craig Lockhart, MD, MHS, discuss the role of targeted therapy in colorectal and pancreatic cancer, the utility of regorafenib (Stivarga) and TAS-102 (trifluridine/tipiracil; Lonsurf) alone and in combination, and the importance of conducting next-generation sequencing.

Dr. Le on the Need for Aggressive Treatment Interventions in Oligometastatic CRC

March 25th 2020

Phat Le, MD, discusses the need for aggressive therapeutic approaches in oligometastatic colorectal cancer.

Dr. Raghav on Treatment Options in Newly Diagnosed mCRC

March 25th 2020

Kanwal Raghav, MBBS, MD, discusses treatment options in newly diagnosed metastatic colorectal cancer.

Dr. Overman on Second-Line Therapy Options for Colorectal Cancer

March 23rd 2020

Michael J. Overman, MD, discusses second-line therapy options for patients with colorectal cancer.

Dr. Marshall on Challenges in CRC Treatment

March 21st 2020

John L. Marshall, MD, discusses the challenges in the colorectal cancer field.

Dr. Mizrahi on the Goal of the COMMIT Trial in dMMR Metastatic CRC

March 20th 2020

Jonathan Mizrahi, MD, discusses the goal of the phase III COMMIT trial in mismatch repair deficient colorectal cancer.

Dr. Le on Treatment Approaches for Oligometastatic Colorectal Cancer

March 19th 2020

Phat Le, MD, assistant professor, Department of General Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses treatment approaches for patients with oligometastatic colorectal cancer (CRC).

Dr. Putcha on the Utility of Blood-Based Assays in CRC

March 14th 2020

Girish Putcha, MD, PhD, discusses the utility of blood-based assays in colorectal cancer.

Dr. Armaghany on Gene Sequencing in CRC

March 13th 2020

Tannaz Armaghany, MD, discusses up-front gene sequencing in patients with colorectal cancer.

TAS-102 Plus Bevacizumab Is Potential New Option in Refractory mCRC

March 12th 2020

The addition of bevacizumab to TAS-102 (trifluridine/tipiracil; Lonsurf) reduced the risk of disease progression or death compared with TAS-102 alone in patients with chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer.

Dr. Nelson on the Benefit of Primary Tumor Resection in mCRC

March 11th 2020

Douglas A. Nelson, MD, associate professor in the Department of General Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the benefit of primary tumor resection in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Dr. Overman on Investigational Targeted Therapies in mCRC

March 11th 2020

Michael J. Overman, MD, professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology of the Division of Cancer Medicine and committee vice chair at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses investigational targeted therapies in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Advancing the mCRC Paradigm With Clinical Trials and Molecular Profiling

March 10th 2020

Kanwal Raghav, MBBS, MD, discusses the implications of molecular profiling on treatment decisions in metastatic colorectal cancer and the importance of referring patients to clinical trials.

Navigating NGS and Novel Therapies in GI Malignancies in New York

March 6th 2020

We recently traveled to Brooklyn, New York, for a State of the Science Summit™ on Gastrointestinal Cancer, which featured insights from Weill Cornell Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center faculty.