Advanced Gastroesophageal Cancer

Publication Date: January 5, 2023

Key Points

Key Points

  • Gastroesophageal cancers are among the most prevalent gastrointestinal malignancies worldwide. In 2020, there were over 1 million new cases and 769,000 deaths due to gastric cancer.
  • Most gastric and gastrointestinal junction tumors are adenocarcinoma.
  • Targeted cancer therapies and immunotherapy are more effective in subgroups of gastroesophageal cancer patients who possess certain biomarkers such as programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) protein expression.

Treatment

...reatment

...gure 1. Immunotherapy and Targeted Thera...


...t-line Therapy

....1For HER2-negative patients with...

Recommendation 1.2For HER2-negative pat...

...ion 1.3For patients with ESCC and PD-L...

....4For patients with ESCC, and PD-L1 tumor...

...ion 1.5For patients with HER2-positive gas...


...econd- or Third-line...

...2.1For patients with advanced gastroesophagea...

...ion 2.2For HER2-positive patients with...