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Circulating tumor DNA can be a valuable tool in gastric cancer, but unanswered questions remain, an expert said.

Older adults with gastric cancer tended to have better outcomes when they walked 2,500 steps per day or more.

Findings presented at the 2024 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium support Fruzaqla’s potential to provide an improved survival benefit and quality of life for those with previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer.

Adding Imfinzi and Avastin to transarterial chemoembolization led to a 23% reduction in the risk of progression or death in patients with liver cancer.

Circulating tumor DNA-based minimal residual disease lent insight into which patients with stage 2/3 colorectal cancer may be at higher risk for recurrence and which could benefit from postsurgical chemotherapy.

Patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma and poor liver function were more likely to experience serious side effects leading to regorafenib treatment discontinuation, researchers have found.

Patients with resectable mismatch repair-proficient and -deficient colorectal cancer had robust responses to neoadjuvant botensilimab/balstilimab.

In patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, the combination of Tecentriq, tiragolumab and chemotherapy improved survival outcomes, research found.

In patients with TRK fusion GI cancers, Vitrakvi continued to show improvements regarding responses to treatment, survival and safety, research found.

The use of FOLFOXIRI for metastatic colorectal cancer was lower than one what expert was expecting.

The use of the chemotherapy regimen FOLFOXIRI plus Avastin has increased from 2013 to 2022 in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, particularly in patients aged 50 years and younger.

Certain patients with metastatic colorectal cancer were more likely to have long-term remission to Stivarga treatment, recent research showed.

Imfinzi plus chemotherapy, when given before surgery, improved pathologic complete response rates, regardless of region, in certain patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancers.

Treatment with Opdivo and chemotherapy improved survival in patients with gastrointestinal cancers, compared with chemotherapy alone, according to a phase 3 trial.

Patients with advanced gastric cancers tended to have better survival outcomes when given Opdivo plus chemotherapy, compared to those who were given chemotherapy alone.

Research focuses on the importance of quality of life and nutritional needs for patients with breast cancer.

Menin inhibitors for patients with AML have been one of many improvements within the blood cancer space this year, Lee Greenberger of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society told CURE®.

Dr. Heather Parsons of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute explains how a liquid biopsy could help patients with breast cancer and their care teams learn vital information.

New treatments and ongoing trials are providing more options and better outcomes for patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms, an expert explained.

Dr. Douglas Tremblay of the Ichan School of Medicine explains the necessity of cytoreductive therapy for patients with MPNs such as essential thrombocythemia and polycythemia vera.

After being diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia, Marilyn Kay Edwards was not told much about her disease.

Among patients with relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who expressed frequent baseline BTK mutations, responses on the non-covalent BTK inhibitor Jaypirca remained high, according to data presented at the 2023 ASH Annual Meeting.

A treatment combination of Sarclisa, Kyprolis, Revlimid and dexamethasone demonstrated a complete response in patients who were newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

An expert discussed the importance of knowing the questions to ask a patient’s care team to navigate one’s journey, including treatment and next steps.

Patients with chemotherapy-naïve, HER2-low hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer experienced antitumor activity via combination therapy with Arimidex or Faslodex plus Enhertu, according to data from the phase 1b DESTINY-Breast08 trial.

CURE® recently covered the 2023 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. In case you missed it, here is some news that came out of the conference that patients should know about.

Data showed that metabolic and genetic factors could contribute to aggressive tumors in Latin American and non-Hispanic White patients with breast cancer.

Dr. Lucia Masarova sat down with CURE® and discussed the advancements she hopes to see in 2024 for the treatment of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms.