Nivolumab in the treatment of microsatellite instability high metastatic colorectal cancer
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- MSI testing is a PCR assay, and per recommendation from the National Cancer Institute, a panel of generally five microsatellites are evaluated for instability; MSI-H is defined as instability in two or more of the five microsatellites 15.
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are shown to be effective among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) harboring high microsatellite instability (MSI-H) and/or mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR), with U.S. In Europe, only pembrolizumab in the first line and the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab beyond the first line are approved. The development of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the adjuvant and neoadjuvant settings is also of great interest for patients harboring MSI-H/dMMR… This article reviews trifluridine/tipiracil clinical data and presents practical information on its use in the management of refractory mCRC in Australia.
Adjuvant Immunotherapy
In addition, because of the small sample size of patients with sTRAEs, it is not feasible to assess whether these sTRAEs were related to specific efficacy outcomes. Pooling sTRAE categories from patients with varying underlying biology may have contributed to the comparable efficacy observed in patients both with and without sTRAEs. It is caused by impaired DNA mismatch repair processes (MMR), resulting in ineffectiveness of the mechanisms responsible for the DNA replication precision and postreplicative DNA repair. The data about the potential value of MMR status as a predictive factor for 5-fluorouracil (FU)-based chemotherapy remain unclear. According to National Comprehensive Cancer Network updated guidelines, MSI testing is recommended for all patients with stage II CRC because patients with MSI-H (high-frequency MSI) tumour may have a good prognosis and obtain no benefit from 5-FU-based adjuvant chemotherapy. The significance of the MSI status as a predictive factor for patients with metastatic disease was not confirmed.
IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR dMMR mCRC
BackgroundTumor metastasis is the major cause of death of colorectal cancer (CRC), and metastatic CRC remains incurable in many cases despite great advances in genetic and molecular profiling, and clinical development of numerous drugs, including immune checkpoint inhibitors. Then, we evaluated in vivo antitumor efficacy induced by agents targeting the identified molecular mechanisms using the mouse models. We validated the clinical relevancy of the findings using peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from stage IV metastatic CRC patients.ResultsCD11b+CTLA4+ myeloid cells were systemically expanded in the metastatic settings and facilitated tumor progression and metast…
Biomarkers predicting response
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This marked pharmacodynamics variability in patients calls for reconsidering to what extent approved dosing used in clinical practice are optimal or whether they should require efforts for customization in outlier patients. To better understand whether or not dosing could be an actionable item in oncology, in this review, preclinical and clinical development of immune checkpoint inhibitors are described, particularly from the angle of dose finding studies. Other issues in connection with dosing issues are developed, such as the flat dosing alternative, the putative role therapeutic drug monitoring could play, the rise of combinatorial strategies, and pharmaco-economic aspects. Safety assessments included incidence of TRAEs, TRAEs leading to discontinuation or delay, and incidence and management of sTRAEs and immune‐mediated adverse events (IMAEs).
- However, the majority of metastatic cases do not respond to or progress after first line conventional chemotherapy and contribute to the fatalities of patients with CRC.
- Here, we argue that preclinical model systems that recapitulate key features of the tumor microenvironment—including tumor, stromal, and immune cells; the extracellular matrix; and the vasculature—are crucial for studies of immunity in the CRC TME and the utility of immunotherapies for CRC patients.
- Combination of VitC and ICT can be curative in models of mismatch repair–deficient tumors with high mutational burden.
- She then underwent resection consisting of pancreaticoduodenectomy, which demonstrated pathological complete response.
- The response rate was higher in the pembrolizumab arm with 13.1% patients reaching complete response.
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Immunotherapy for dMMR/MSI-H mCRC
These promising drugs have already shown astonishing efficacies in other cancer types and have raised new hope for the treatment of metastatic CRC (mCRC). In this review, we will summarize the results of the clinical trials that led to their accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2017, as well as all relevant recent studies conducted since then—some of which are not published yet. We will focus on therapeutic efficacy, but also discuss the available data for drug safety and s… Recently, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) therapy has become a promising therapeutic strategy with encouraging therapeutic outcomes due to their durable anti-tumor effects. Though, tumor inherent or acquired resistance to ICIs accompanied with treatment-related toxicities hamper their clinical utility.
Trials on combinations of nivolumab and various anticancer drugs are summarized in Table 2. Tumor mismatch-repair (MMR) deficiency can be evaluated by either direct assessment of durable clinical benefit with nivolumab plus ipilimumab in dna mismatch repair the expression of MMR proteins, or by MSI testing (i.e., assessing alterations of microsatellite lengths in DNA). Altered expression of MMR proteins due to mutation or epigenetic silencing results in MSI.
The 24th annual Western Canadian Gastrointestinal Cancer Consensus Conference (WCGCCC) was held in Richmond, British Columbia, on 28–29 October 2022. The WCGCCC is an interactive multidisciplinary conference attended by healthcare professionals from across Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) who are involved in the care of patients with gastrointestinal cancer. Surgical, medical, and radiation oncologists; pathologists; radiologists; and allied health care professionals such as dieticians, nurses and a genetic counsellor participated in presentation and discussion sessions for the purpose of developing the recommendations presented here. This consensus statement addresses current issues in the management of colorectal cancer. The dual independent primary end points are PFS by blinded independent central review (BICR) with nivolumab plus ipilimumab compared with chemotherapy and PFS by BICR with nivolumab plus ipilimumab vs nivolumab.
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