Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a poor prognosis. The POLO trial showed that olaparib (PARP inhibitor) improved progression-free survival (PFS) but not overall survival (OS), when used as maintenance therapy after ≥ 16 weeks of disease control with first-line platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with germline (g) BRCA 1 or 2 pathogenic variants (PV) metastatic PDAC. However, real-world data on the effectiveness of olaparib are missing.
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November 2024
Background And Aims: The combination of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab (Atz/Bev) has radically changed the treatment strategy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) but raises questions. Our objectives were to determine survival outcomes and safety in a real-life multicenter French cohort, to investigate the on-treatment prognostic value of the bioinflammatory RECA score, and to perform a matched comparison with patients who previously received tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).
Methodology: A retrospective analysis of 109 consecutive patients enrolled from September 2020 to January 2023 and a post matched comparison with a TKI cohort ( n = 79) by the propensity score matching method.
Background: Prior trials validated triplet chemotherapy (Tri-CT) with bevacizumab as first line treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) but real-world data are scarce and practices remain heterogeneous.
Aims: To evaluate Tri-CT +/- bevacizumab efficacy and safety, and to identify factors influencing treatment decisions.
Methods: The COLOTRIP retrospective study enrolled mCRC patients treated from 2014 to 2019 in 14 French centers.
Since EXTRA, a non-randomized phase II trial with 31 patients, explored the use of capecitabine, mitomycin and radiation therapy (RT) in the treatment of localized squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal (SCCAC), this treatment has been considered as an acceptable alternative to infusional 5-FU. However, the differences in efficacy between capecitabine and 5-FU in chemoradiation therapy (CRT) with simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) radiation therapy (SIB-IMRT) for local SCCAC are not well documented. Patients included in this prospective monocentric cohort study were treated with SIB-RapidArc (a unique RT method treatment for all patients: identical technique, volume and constraints for at-risk organs), mitomycin C and 5-FU each day of RT for 7 weeks (group 1) or capecitabine each day of RT (group 2).
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