2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

First-line treatment with pembrolizumab + chemotherapy maintains overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced or metastatic oesophageal cancer, according to an additional 12-month follow-up of the KEYNOTE-590* study presented at ASCO GI 2022.

Upfront treatment with nivolumab plus chemotherapy continues to yield significant survival benefit compared with chemotherapy alone in patients with advanced GC/GEJC/EAC* after 24 months, regardless of their PD-L1 combined positive score (CPS), according to long-term data from the CheckMate-649 trial presented at GICS 2022.

Patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC) who receive durvalumab in addition to standard of care (SoC) gemcitabine plus cisplatin chemotherapy in the first-line setting have a reduced risk of death compared with those receiving SoC alone, according to results of the TOPAZ-1 study presented at ASCO GI 2022.

A triplet chemotherapeutic (CT) regimen comprising docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fluororacil (5-FU; DCF) outdid a doublet regimen comprising CF as neoadjuvant treatment for locally advanced oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), the phase III JCOG*1109 NExT study suggests.

Giving adjuvant S-1 to patients with curatively resected biliary tract cancer (BTC) significantly improves survival compared with observation following surgery, according to the ASCOT trial presented in the 2022 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (GICS).