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Summary of developments in oesophageal and gastric cancers

Best of ASCO® Miami 2016

8 - 10 Jul 2016

Published: 26 Jul 2016

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Dr Caio Max Rocha Lima - Gibbs Cancer Center & Research Institute, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA

Dr Rocha Lima speaks with ecancertv at the Best of ASCO 2016 about developments in treating oesophageal and gastric cancer.

He discusses the negative results of adjuvant radiotherapy to treat cancer around the gastroesophageal junction, and the positive indication for a short course of FOLFOX to treat squamous oesophageal cancer compared to intermittent chemotherapy.

Prof Salah-Eddin Al-Batran introduced results of IMAB362 at this years ASCO conference, and discussed them with ecancer here.

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