Abstracts

Pancreatic cancer: Epidemiological factors, clinical characteristics, and therapeutic management: Data of an oncology center in southern Morocco

Background Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most aggressive cancers with poor prognosis. It is usually tardily diagnosed due to its atypical symptomatology, th...

06/27/2022

Real-world assessment of treatment sequencing of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer in a private practice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Americas Oncologia RJ)

Background The first-line treatment in advanced pancreatic cancer (ACP) is well established by phase III studies, with protocols FOLFIRINOX (FF) and gemcitabine/ nab-pac...

06/27/2022

Study of the hedgehog signaling pathway in colorectal cancer: Association with wild type RAS status

Background EGFR antibodies are efficient in the treatment of patients with RAS wild type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). However, 25% of those patients resist to th...

06/27/2022

Study of the composition of the inflammatory infiltrate in patients with colorectum cancer

Background Colorectal cancer is a real public health problem, it ranks third among cancers in terms of frequency the world and second in terms of mortality. Several envi...

06/27/2022

Real-world evidence of anlotinib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and clinical role of α-fetoprotein

Background Anlotinib, a novel multi-targeting tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), has been investigated in a variety of malignant tumors and has shown efficacy in clinical ...

Y. Yin ;

B. Yin ;

X. Bi ;

06/27/2022

PIK3CA mutations in Tunisian patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: Patient stratification for targeted therapies

Background The PI3K signaling pathway plays a key role in the pathogenesis of many cancer types, including colorectal cancer. The PI3K signaling pathway is deregulated d...

06/27/2022

Endoscopic ultrasound guided-fine needle aspiration for the diagnosis of secondary pancreatic lesions. Experience of a reference center

Background It is estimated that about 2% to 5% of pancreatic malignant tumors are metastatic lesions. Lung, kidney and breast cancer as well as melanoma are the most com...

06/27/2022

Increased expression of dual-specificity phosphatase 7 in gastric cancer is associated with poor prognosis and chemoresistance

Background Dual specificity phosphatases (DUSPs) are pivotal regulators of protein activation through dephosphorylating key molecules such as mitogen activated protein k...

H. Asharaf ;

Y. Xu ;

L. Ye ;

W. Jiang ;

06/27/2022

Colon carcinoma in adolescents and young adults, not so rare: Experience from an Indian cancer center

Background The rise of colorectal carcinoma in adolescents and young adults (AYA) is a growing global concern. Limited studies are available which have focused on colon ...

06/27/2022

Prognostic impact of clinico-pathologic parameters in early- and average-onset curatively resected colorectal cancer

Background Nearly a third of patients with curatively resected colorectal cancer experience recurrence. However, prognostic data do not discern sporadic early onset colo...

06/27/2022