New Treatment Options for Advanced Gastroesophageal Tumours: Mature for the Current Practice?

Cancers (Basel)

Department of Medicine I, Division of Oncology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.

Published: January 2020

Several clinical trials attempted to identify novel treatment options for advanced gastroesophageal tumours in first, second and further lines. Although results of targeted therapy regimens were mainly disappointing, novel immunotherapy agents showed promising activity, which led to their approval in second and third lines in many countries. This review focuses on the results of recent clinical trials investigating novel agents including targeted therapies, immunotherapy components and chemotherapies and discuss their current impact as well as current approval status on the treatment armamentarium of advanced gastroesophageal tumours.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7072704PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12020301DOI Listing

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