Takayuki Yoshino, ASCO 2022: The impact of tumour location on prognosis in metastatic colorectal cancer

Professor Benjamin Weinberg (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA) discusses the highlights of colorectal cancer at ASCO 2022. A subset of colorectal cancer is mismatch repair deficient and is responsive to PD-1 blockade in the metastatic setting. This led to the phase II study where dostarlimab, an anti PD-1 monoclonal antibody, was administered to patients with […]

PARADIGM is the first prospective trial to examine panitumumab versus bevacizumab in colorectal cancer. Professor Benjamin Weinberg (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA) discusses the findings of the phase III PARADIGM study in patients with RAS wild-type (WT) metastatic colorectal cancer. The abstract entitled ‘Panitumumab (PAN) plus mFOLFOX6 versus bevacizumab (BEV) plus mFOLFOX6 as first-line treatment […]

Dr Takayuki Yoshino (National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan) discusses the findings from the phase 3 PARADIGM trial, which was part of a plenary session and selected as one of the top abstracts from the conference. The trial assessed panitumumab plus mFOLFOX6 versus bevacizumab plus mFOLFOX6 as first-line treatment in patients with RAS wild-type […]