HCC: Key topics discussed at ASCO GI & EASL 2022

December 06, 2023 00:13:11
HCC: Key topics discussed at ASCO GI & EASL 2022
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HCC: Key topics discussed at ASCO GI & EASL 2022

Dec 06 2023 | 00:13:11

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Show Notes

Medical Education podcast by COR2ED. Professor James Harding, HCC Connect member, provides his perspectives and insights on key abstracts and topics discussed at ASCO GI 2022 and EASL liver cancer summit 2022 in hepatocellular carcinoma. He discusses the HIMALAYA study which evaluated dual immune checkpoint blockade inhibition namely, anti-CTLA-4 antibody tremelimumab with the anti-PD-L1 antibody durvalumab in the frontline setting with patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. There were other important studies at the meeting and Prof Harding highlights the RENOBATE study and the GOING study that evaluated nivolumab in combination with regorafenib and early addition of nivolumab to regorafenib regimen, respectively.

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