One of the sessions that stood out for me at the recent European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress in Madrid was a Special Symposium on “Advances in Precision Medicine of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.”

This blog post focuses on two presentations in the symposium:

  • “Emerging druggable targets in colorectal Cancer” by Federica Di Nicolantonio (Candiolo Cancer Institute, University of Torino, Italy).
  • “Signal Transduction Inhibitors and Pipeline Drugs” by Josep Tabernero MD PhD (Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona)

Dr Nicolantonio, pictured right, is active on Twitter (@fdinicolantonio) and well worth a follow!

Since the advent of VEGF (Avastin) and EGFR (Erbitux) inhibitors way back in 2004, there haven’t been any new developments in this cancer type other than more of the same (Zaltrap and Vectibix, respectively), so I was particularly excited to see progress in colorectal cancer, and the promise of new drug targets on the horizon that may change the treatment landscape.

Subscribers can login to read more.

This content is restricted to subscribers

Posted by