Wednesday, January 25, 2023 The ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium was held last weekend January 19-21, 2023 in Moscone West, San Francisco, CA. CCTG support some great trial results and posters. Pictured above is Dr Solar Vasconcelos who was honoured with a merit award for his poster at #GI23 on Predictive & prognostic features of metastatic colorectal cancer arising from the transverse colon: a pooled analysis of the CCTG CO17/CO20 trials with Dr Jonathan Loree and Senior Investigator Chis O'Callaghan. CCTG HE.1 Canadian Cancer Trials Group HE.1: A phase III study of palliative radiotherapy for symptomatic hepatocellular carcinoma and liver metastases Session Type: Oral Presentation Session Title: Rapid Abstract Session B: Cancers of the Pancreas, Small Bowel, and Hepatobiliary Tract Citation: JCO 2023 TBD Abstract #: LBA492 Authors: Laura Dawson, Alysa Fairchild, Kristopher Dennis, Aamer Mahmud, Teri Stuckless, Francois Vincent, David Roberge, Matthew Follwell, Raimond Wong, Derek Jonker, Jennifer Knox, Camilla Zimmermann, Philip Wong, Tom Purdie, Jolie Ringash, Aisling Barry, Marc Gaudet, Dongsheng Tu, Rebecca Wong, Christopher O'Callaghan Abstract link: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/215519 CCTG GA.3/AGITG INTEGRATE IIa INTEGRATE IIa: A randomised, double-blind, phase III study of regorafenib versus placebo in refractory advanced gastro-oesophageal cancer (AGOC)—A study led by the Australasian Gastro-intestinal Trials Group (AGITG) Session Type: Poster Session Session Title: Poster Session A: Cancers of the Esophagus and Stomach and Other GI Cancers Citation: JCO 2023 TBD Abstract #: LBA294 Authors: Nick Pavlakis, Kohei Shitara, Katrin Sjoquist, Andrew Martin, Anthony Jaworski, Sonia Yip, Yung-Jue Bang, Thierry Alcindor, Christopher O'Callaghan, Niall Tebbutt, Andrew Strickland, Sun Rha, Keun-Wook Lee, John Zalcberg, Timothy Price, John Simes, David Goldstein Abstract link: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/216504 CCTG CO.26 Plasma phosphocreatine (PC) as a predictive biomarker for immune checkpoint inhibition in patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC): Analysis of the CCTG CO.26 trial Session Type: Poster Session Session Title: Poster Session C: Cancers of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus Citation: JCO 2023 TBD Abstract #: 183 Authors: Lucy Ma, Jonathan Loree, Derek Jonker, Hagen Kennecke, Scott Berry, Felix Couture, Chaudhary Ahmad, John Goffin, Petr Kavan, Mohammed Harb, Bruce Colwell, Setareh Samimi, Benoit Samson, Tahir Abbas, Nathalie Aucoin, Francine Aubin, Sheryl Koski, Dongsheng Tu, Christopher O'Callaghan, Eric Chen Abstract link: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/215839 CCTG CO.28 Feasibility of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to guide organ preservation in patients with node-negative rectal cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy, excision, and observation in the phase II CCTG CO.28 trial Session Type: Poster Session Session Title: Poster Session C: Cancers of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus Citation: JCO 2023 TBD Abstract #: 180 Authors: Jonathan Loree, Russell Madison, Christopher O'Callaghan, Carl Brown, Dongsheng Tu, Derek Jonker, Max Sherry, Alexander Fine, Yanmei Huang, William Camara, Prapti Pokharel, Alexey Aleshin, Geoffrey Oxnard, Hagen Kennecke Abstract link: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/215979 CCTG CO.17/CO.20 Pictured above Dr Solar Vasconcelos who was honoured with a merit award for his poster at #GI23 Predictive & prognostic features of metastatic colorectal cancer arising from the transverse colon: a pooled analysis of the CCTG CO17/CO20 trials with Dr Jonathan Loree Senior Investigator Chis O'Callaghan Predictive and prognostic features of metastatic colorectal cancer arising from the transverse colon: A pooled analysis of the CCTG/AGITG CO.17 and CO.20 randomized trials Session Type: Poster Session Session Title: Poster Session C: Cancers of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus Citation: JCO 2023 TBD Abstract #: 124 Authors: Joao Paulo Solar Vasconcelos, Nan Chen, Dongsheng Tu, Stephanie Brule, Rachel Goodwin, Derek Jonker, Timothy Price, John Zalcberg, Malcolm Moore, Christos Karapetis, Lillian Siu, Jeremy Shapiro, John Simes, Christopher O'Callaghan, Jonathan Loree Abstract link: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/215974 CCTG CRC.10/NRG GI008 NRG GI008: Colon adjuvant chemotherapy based on evaluation of residual disease (CIRCULATE-US) Session Type: Trials in Progress Poster Session Session Title: Trials in Progress Poster Session C: Cancers of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus Citation: JCO 2023 TBD Abstract #: TPS260 Authors: Christopher Lieu, Yan Lin, Scott Kopetz, Samuel Jacobs, Peter Lucas, Ibrahim Sahin, Dustin Deming, Philip Philip, Theodore Hong, Yesenia Rojas-Khalil, Jonathan Loree, Norman Wolmark, Greg Yothers, Thomas George, Arvind Dasari Abstract link: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/216082 CCTG CRC.9/NRG GI005 Phase II/III study of circulating tumor DNA as a predictive biomarker in adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with stage II colon cancer: NRG-GI005 (COBRA) Session Type: Trials in Progress Poster Session Session Title: Trials in Progress Poster Session C: Cancers of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus Citation: JCO 2023 TBD Abstract #: TPS259 Authors: Van Morris, Greg Yothers, Scott Kopetz, Samuel Jacobs, Peter Lucas, Atif Iqbal, Patrick Boland, Dustin Deming, Aaron Scott, Howard Lim, Theodore Hong, Norman Wolmark, Thomas George Abstract link: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/216058