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Prepared for Alfred N. | Delivered December 11, 2019
Colorectal cancer newest noninvasive treatments
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Goals
To learn about new and emerging noninvasive colorectal cancer treatments.
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Early Findings
New noninvasive treatments for colorectal cancer are being developed that include genomic data, derived from a
genomic analysis
performed on the FFPE primary tumor and whole blood that is used to provide "
personalized treatment
for a KRAS mutant colorectal cancer."
Through genomic analysis, researchers found
nine mutations
that appear to be drivers for the majority of colorectal cancer tumors.
One noninvasive combination treatment for colorectal cancer, still in clinical trials, involves daily doses of oral trametinib plus an intravenous dose of zoledronate once every 4 weeks.
A 53-year-old man diagnosed with colorectal adenocarcinoma is the patient discussed in this
Science Advances
article.
His
treatment
involved a 2 mg daily dose of oral trametinib combined with a 4 mg dose of zoledronate delivered intravenously once every four weeks.
After eight weeks of this drug therapy, the patient's targeted lesions had decreased by
45%
. Further, testing after more treatment and the reintroduction of oral trametinib showed a slight increase in the size of the target lesions, but they were still
39%
below the baseline size established at the start of treatment. Additionally, no new lesions formed during this time.
The University of Texas
MD Anderson
Cancer Center has developed targeted therapies to treat certain types of colon cancer. Innovative new drugs researchers there have developed "
stop the growth
of cancer cells by interfering with certain proteins and receptors or blood vessels that supply the tumor with what it needs to grow, survive and spread."
New drugs are being developed to treat colorectal cancer by
targeting specific
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present in some tumors and patients but not others.
A list of drugs currently approved by the FDA for the treatment of colon cancer and rectal cancer is available
here
.
Summary of our findings:
Our initial hour of research was able to find information related to the development of noninvasive therapies for the treatment of colorectal cancer. We found many instances of treatments in clinical trials but none that have been released recently.
We did not have time in our first hour to look into these trials to see which ones were stage 3 or stage 4 to see what treatments will be available soon.
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