ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer 2020 Virtual (ESMO GI 2020)

Several strategies have been proposed to help manage the adverse events (AEs) that emerged during the BEACON CRC trial which assessed the effect of encorafenib plus cetuximab in patients with BRAF V600E mutant metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who had progressed after one or two prior regimens.

Older patients (aged ≥65 years) with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may derive greater survival benefit with an atezolizumab + bevacizumab combination compared with sorafenib, according to results of a subgroup analysis of the IMbrave150 trial presented at ESMO GI 2020.

In patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), first-line treatment with nivolumab may confer greater overall survival (OS) than sorafenib, according to updated results of the phase III CheckMate 459* study.

Combination immunotherapy with nivolumab (1 mg/kg) and high-dose ipilimumab (3 mg/kg), given every 3 weeks (nivo1+ipi3 Q3W) for four cycles, followed by flat-dose nivolumab (240 mg) maintenance every 2 weeks (Q2W), achieved greater efficacy vs two high-dose nivolumab (3 mg/kg) and ipilimumab (1 mg/kg) regimens (nivo3+ipi1) in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and in Asian patients, in particular, according to a subanalysis of the phase I/II CheckMate 040 trial presented at the virtual World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (WCGC) 2020.