An educational enduring online activity provided by i3 Health has demonstrated knowledge gains pertaining to up-to-date treatment and personalized health care plans for metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). Recently the American Cancer Society estimated that CRC would see 151,030 new cases, with 52,580 of these diagnoses being fatal, this year alone, making CRC the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States. If found early, CRC can be and is often cured, with a 5-year survival rate ...

Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States. Each year, there are 149,500 new cases of colorectal cancer, and 52,980 people die from the disease. Treatment choice depends on many factors, including patient characteristics, tumor characteristics, molecular characteristics, and patient preferences. Approximately 21% of patients present with metastatic disease, which has a five-year survival rate of only 14%. Results from the CRYSTAL and PRI...

 The FDA has granted approval to cetuximab (Erbitux®, Eli Lilly), in combination with encorafenib (Braftovi®, Array BioPharma) for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) with a BRAF V600E mutation. "Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer with the BRAF V600E mutation have a poor prognosis, with a median overall survival of 4 to 6 months after failure of initial therapy," wrote Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP, Professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical ...

The FDA has approved a new dosing regimen of 500 mg/m2 cetuximab (Erbitux®, Eli Lilly) for patients with KRAS wild-type epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)–expressing metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) and patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). This biweekly dosage regimen serves as an alternative to the existing weekly dosage regimen of cetuximab, whether on its own or combined with chemotherapy, and should be administered as a single 120-minute intravenous infusion ev...

Standard treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) typically involves antiangiogenic therapies, which block angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, thereby starving cancer cells. Anlotinib, a multitarget tyrosine kinase inhibitor, works by targeting VEGFR1-3, which hinders tumor metastasis and growth. In study results to be presented this weekend at the 2021 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, anlotinib demonstrated efficacy in patients with previously treated mCRC. ALTER0703, ...

Patients with unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer with high microsatellite instability (MSI) or a deficiency in mismatch repair (dMMR) now have their first frontline immunotherapy option, thanks to the FDA's approval of pembrolizumab (Keytruda®, Merck) in this population. Efficacy and safety were investigated in an open-label phase 3 trial, KEYNOTE-177 (NCT02563002), for which 307 patients with previously untreated MSI-high/dMMR metastatic colorectal cancer and an Eastern Cooperative On...

Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death and the fourth most common diagnosed cancer in the world. Often, this disease is left undiagnosed until it reaches an advanced stage. Unfortunately, late-stage metastatic colorectal cancer has a poor prognosis with a 5-year survival rate of only 12%. In an interview with i3 Health, Chiara Cremolini, MD, provides insights on the challenges of treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, explains how metastatic colorectal cancer ...

Results of TRIBE2, a phase 3 trial (NCT02339116), show that the triplet treatment FOLFOXIRI (fluorouracil/leucovorin/oxaliplatin/irinotecan) plus bevacizumab is more effective at treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer than FOLFIRI (irinotecan/leucovorin/fluorouracil) plus bevacizumab. In an interview with i3 Health, Chiara Cremolini, MD, lead researcher of this study, provides insights on the results of this trial as well as how the future of treatment for metastatic colorectal canc...

According to the results of TRIBE2, a phase 3 trial (NCT02339116), the triplet treatment FOLFOXIRI (fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan) in combination with bevacizumab has been shown to be more effective in treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer before and after disease progression compared with sequential administration of chemotherapy doublets plus bevacizumab. Patients aged 18 to 75 years with an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 2...

For patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, the standard treatment is induction combination chemotherapy with a targeted agent. However, clinical trials that involved patients either continuing cytotoxic therapy until disease progression or observation have shown inconsistent efficacy results. To close this gap, a systematic review and network meta-analysis was conducted and revealed that continued induction therapy until progression offered no survival benefit compared with maintenance fluo...

In patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer, regorafenib (Stivarga®, Bayer) provides a good overall survival benefit. Unfortunately, it also causes a lot of side effects, such as infection, severe bleeding, tears in the stomach or intestinal wall, hand-foot skin reaction, severe skin rash, high blood pressure, decreased blood flow to the heart, heart attack, reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome, and wound healing problems, all of which limit its usefulness. In order to ...