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Metabolic determinants of cancer immunotherapy outcomes identified by plasma profiling
Nat Med. 2026 Jun 25
doi: 10.1038/s41591-026-04481-9
Sotorasib plus panitumumab and 5-fluorouracil in first-line treatment of patients with unresectable KRAS G12C mutated colorectal cancer unfit for a doublet/triplet chemotherapy: ENGIC 01 – PRODIGE 107 – FFCD 2306 – COLOSOTO trial
Dig Liver Dis. 2026 Jul;58(7):966-972.
doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2026.04.009.
Upfront Modified FOLFOXIRI Plus Panitumumab for RAS/BRAF Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Final Results of the Phase III TRIPLETE Study
J Clin Oncol. 2026 Feb 10;44(5):361-369.
doi: 10.1200/JCO-25-01337.
Impact of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Treated With Chemotherapy Plus Bevacizumab or Anti-EGFRs: Exploratory Analysis of Eight Randomized Trials
J Clin Oncol. 2025 Sep 4;43(29):3184–3197.
doi: 10.1200/JCO-25-01003
Re-treatment with panitumumab followed by regorafenib versus the reverse sequence in chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer patients with RAS and BRAF wild-type circulating tumor DNA: the PARERE study by GONO
Ann Oncol. 2026 Jan;37(1):79-91.
doi: 10.1016/j.annonc.2025.10.002.
Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis of Consensus Molecular Subtypes as Biomarkers of First-Line Treatment in RAS Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
J Clin Oncol. 2026 Jan;44(1):31-41.
doi: 10.1200/JCO-25-00596.
FOLFOXIRI/bevacizumab versus doublets/bevacizumab as initial therapy of unresectable liver-only, right-sided and/or RAS or BRAF mutated metastatic colorectal cancer: An individual patient data-based pooled analysis of randomized trials
Eur J Cancer. 2025 Aug 15:228:115713.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2025.115713 – PMID: 40865392
Risk of disease progression in the first-line therapy of metastatic colorectal cancer to guide disease re-assessments – analysis of eleven trials by AIO and GONO
Ann Oncol. 2025 Aug 19:S0923-7534(25)00921-4.
DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2025.08.001 – PMID: 40840710
Pooled analysis of 3,741 stool metagenomes from 18 cohorts for cross-stage and strain-level reproducible microbial biomarkers of colorectal cancer
Nat Med. 2025 Jul;31(7):2416-2429.
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03693-9 – PMID: 40461820
The relative dose intensity of first-line FOLFOXIRI and FOLFOX/FOLFIRI both in combination with bevacizumab affects prognosis of metastatic colorectal cancer patients: A pooled analysis of TRIBE and TRIBE2 studies.
Eur J Cancer. 2025 Jun 3:222:115470.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2025.115470 – PMID: 40306121
Exploring the Prognostic and Predictive Impact of Genomic Loss of Heterozygosity and Homologous Recombination Deficiency Alterations in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
JCO Precis Oncol. 2025 Apr:9:e2400567.
DOI: 10.1200/PO-24-00567 – PMID: 40249885
Impact of the ONCOBIOME network in cancer microbiome research
Nat Med. 2025 Apr;31(4):1085-1098.
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03608-8 – PMID: 40217075
Surrogate markers of intestinal dysfunction associated with survival in advanced cancers
Oncoimmunology. 2025 Dec;14(1):2484880.
DOI: 10.1080/2162402X.2025.2484880 – PMID: 40189749
Liver metastases do not predict resistance to the addition of atezolizumab to first-line FOLFOXIRI plus bevacizumab in proficient MMR metastatic colorectal cancer: a secondary analysis of the AtezoTRIBE study
ESMO Open. 2025 Feb;10(2):104135.
DOI: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2025.104135. – PMID: 39908699
A constitutive interferon-high immunophenotype defines response to immunotherapy in colorectal cancer
Cancer Cell . 2025 Feb 10;43(2):292-307.e7.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2024.12.008 – PMID: 39824178
Prognostic impact of depth of response and early tumour shrinkage in patients with BRAF V600E -mutated metastatic colorectal cancer treated with targeted therapy
Ther Adv Med Oncol. 2025 Jan 7:17:17588359241299975.
DOI: 10.1177/17588359241299975 – PMID: 39776534
Predicting Benefit From FOLFOXIRI Plus Bevacizumab in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2024 Jul:8:e2400037.
doi: 10.1200/CCI.24.00037. – PMID: 39018510
KRASG12D-Mutated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Clinical, Molecular, Immunologic, and Prognostic Features of a New Emerging Targeted Alteration
JCO Precis Oncol. 2024 Nov;8:e2400329.
doi: 10.1200/PO.24.00329. Epub 2024 Nov 7. – PMID: 39509668.
Upfront Fluorouracil, Leucovorin, Oxaliplatin, and Irinotecan Plus Bevacizumab With or Without Atezolizumab for Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Updated and Overall Survival Results of the ATEZOTRIBE Study
J Clin Oncol. 2024 Jun 12:JCO2302728
doi: 10.1200/JCO.23.02728 – PubMed ID: 38865678
Custom scoring based on ecological topology of gut microbiota associated with cancer immunotherapy outcome
Cell. 2024 Jun 20;187(13):3373-3389.e16
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.029 – PubMed ID: 38906102
Molecular screening with liquid biopsy for anti-EGFR retreatment in metastatic colorectal cancer: preliminary data from the randomized phase 2 PARERE trial
Front Oncol. 2024 Feb 9:13:1307545
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1307545 – PubMed ID: 38406172
Primary Tumor Resection in Synchronous Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients Treated with Upfront Chemotherapy plus Bevacizumab: A Pooled Analysis of TRIBE and TRIBE2 Studies
Cancers (Basel). 2023 Nov 16;15(22):5451
doi: 10.3390/cancers15225451 – PubMed ID: 38001711
Negative hyperselection of elderly patients with RAS and BRAF wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer receiving initial panitumumab plus FOLFOX or 5-FU/LV
Eur J Cancer. 2023 Dec;195:113396
doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2023.113396 – PubMed ID: 37924647
Primary Tumor Resection in Synchronous Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients Treated with Upfront Chemotherapy plus Bevacizumab: A Pooled Analysis of TRIBE and TRIBE2 Studies
Cancers (Basel). 2023 Nov 16;15(22):5451
doi: 10.3390/cancers15225451 – PubMed ID: 38001711 – PMCID: PMC10670103
The prognostic value of radiomic features in liver-limited metastatic colorectal cancer patients from the TRIBE2 study
Future Oncol – 2023 Jul
doi: 10.2217/fon-2023-0406 – PubMed ID: 37577810
Initial Panitumumab Plus Fluorouracil, Leucovorin, and Oxaliplatin or Plus Fluorouracil and Leucovorin in Elderly Patients With RAS and BRAF Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: The PANDA Trial by GONO Foundation
J Clin Oncol. 2023 Aug 3
doi: 10.1200/JCO.23.00506 – PubMed ID: 37535876
ShorTrip Trial: A Prospective, Multicentric Phase II Single-Arm Trial of Short-Course Radiotherapy Followed by Intensified Consolidation Chemotherapy With the Triplet FOLFOXIRI as Total Neoadjuvant Therapy in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
Clin Colorectal Cancer. 2023 Jun 11
doi: 10.1016/j.clcc.2023.06.002 – PubMed ID: 37429749
Adverse events during first-line treatments for mCRC: The Toxicity over Time (ToxT) analysis of three randomised trials
Eur J Cancer. 2023 Aug;
doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2023.05.001 – PubMed ID: 37301718
An Immune-Related Gene Expression Signature Predicts Benefit from Adding Atezolizumab to FOLFOXIRI plus Bevacizumab in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Jun 13
doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-3878 – PubMed ID: 37022350
Dissecting tumor lymphocyte infiltration to predict benefit from immune-checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic colorectal cancer: lessons from the AtezoT RIBE study.
J Immunother Cancer. 2023 Apr
doi: 10.1136/jitc-2022-006633 – PubMed ID: 37085190
Cetuximab as third-line rechallenge plus either irinotecan or avelumab is an effective treatment in metastatic colorectal cancer patients with baseline plasma RAS/BRAF wild-type circulating tumor DNA: Individual patient data pooled analysis of CRICKET and CAVE trials
Cancer Med. 2023 Apr
doi: 10.1002/cam4.5699 – PubMed ID: 36880426
Trop-2 and Nectin-4 immunohistochemical expression in metastatic colorectal cancer: searching for the right population for drugs’ development
Br J Cancer. 2023 Mar
doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02180-7 – PubMed ID: 36759721
Bone metastases are associated with worse prognosis in patients affected by metastatic colorectal cancer treated with doublet or triplet chemotherapy plus bevacizumab: a subanalysis of the TRIBE and TRIBE2 trials Journal
ESMO Open – 2022
doi 10.1016/j.esmoop.2022.100606 – PubMed ID: 36327757
Genetic variants involved in the cGAS-STING pathway predict outcome in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: Data from FIRE-3 and TRIBE trials Journal
European Journal of Cancer – 2022
doi 10.1016/j.ejca.2022.05.016 – PubMed ID: 35749909
Upfront Modified Fluorouracil, Leucovorin, Oxaliplatin, and Irinotecan Plus Panitumumab Versus Fluorouracil, Leucovorin, and Oxaliplatin Plus Panitumumab for Patients With RAS/BRAF Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: The Phase III TRIPLETE Study by GONO
Journal of Clinical Oncology – 2022
doi 10.1200/JCO.22.00839 – PubMed ID: 35666229
Benefit from upfront FOLFOXIRI and bevacizumab in BRAFV600E-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer patients: does primary tumour location matter?
British Journal of Cancer – 2022
doi 10.1038/s41416-022-01852-0 – PubMed ID: 35665778
Upfront FOLFOXIRI plus bevacizumab with or without atezolizumab in the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (AtezoTRIBE): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled, phase 2 trial
Lancet Oncol – 2022
doi 10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00274-1 – PubMed ID: 35636444
Treatments after second progression in metastatic colorectal cancer: A pooled analysis of the TRIBE and TRIBE2 studies
European Journal of Cancer – 2022
doi 10.1016/j.ejca.2022.04.019 – PubMed ID: 35594613
Encorafenib plus cetuximab treatment in BRAF V600E mutated metastatic colorectal cancer patients pre-treated with an anti-EGFR: An AGEO-GONO case series
European Journal of Cancer – 2022
doi 10.1016/j.ejca.2022.03.011 – PubMed ID: 35436675
FOLFOXIRI and bevacizumab in patients with early-onset metastatic colorectal cancer. A pooled analysis of TRIBE and TRIBE2 studies
European Journal of Cancer – 2022
doi 10.1016/j.ejca.2022.02.031 – PubMed ID: 35366570
Bevacizumab-induced hypertension as a predictor of clinical outcome in metastatic colorectal cancer: An individual patient data-based pooled analysis of two randomized studies and a systematic review of the literature
Cancer Treatment Reviews – 2022
doi 10.1016/j.ctrv.2021.102326 – PubMed ID: 35016085
Clinical impact of neutropenia and febrile neutropenia in metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with FOLFOXIRI/bevacizumab: a pooled analysis of TRIBE and TRIBE2 studies by GONO
ESMO Open – 2021
doi 10.1016/j.esmoop.2021.100293 – PubMed ID: 34689001
Homologous Recombination Deficiency Alterations in Colorectal Cancer: Clinical, Molecular, and Prognostic Implications
Journal of the National Cancer Institute – 2021
doi 10.1093/jnci/djab169 – PubMed ID: 34469533
Tumour mutational burden, microsatellite instability, and actionable alterations in metastatic colorectal cancer: Next-generation sequencing results of TRIBE2 study
European Journal of Cancer – 2021
doi 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.06.037 – PubMed ID: 34365081
Rationale and Study Design of the PARERE Trial: Randomized phase II Study of Panitumumab Re-Treatment Followed by Regorafenib Versus the Reverse Sequence in RAS and BRAF Wild-Type Chemo-Refractory Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients
Clinical Colorectal Cancer – 2021
doi 10.1016/j.clcc.2021.07.001 – PubMed ID: 34364814
Molecular profiling and matched targeted treatment in cholangiocarcinoma: results from the Italian dataset (ANITA).
J Hepatol. 2025 Dec 26:S0168-8278(25)02735-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2025.12.016. – PMID: 41456632
Adjuvant TRastuzumab deruxtecan plus fluoropyrimidine versus standard chemotherapy in HER2‑positive gastric or gastroesophageal cancer patients with persistence of minimal residual disease in liquid biopsy after pre‑operative chemotherapy and radical surgery: the multicentre, phase II randomized TRINITY trial
Nasca et al. BMC Cancer (2025) 25:633
doi: 10.1186/s12885-025-14063-6 – PMID: 40200187
Tremelimumab and durvalumab as neoadjuvant or non-operative management strategy of patients with microsatellite instability-high resectable gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma: the INFINITY study by GONO
Ann Oncol. 2024 Dec 3:S0923-7534(24)04953-6
doi: 10.1016/j.annonc.2024.11.016 – PMID: 39637944
A phase II/III randomized clinical trial of CisPlatin plUs Gemcitabine and Nabpaclitaxel (GAP) as pReoperative chemotherapy versus immediate resection in patIents with resecTable BiliarY Tract Cancers (BTC) at high risk for recurrence: PURITY study
BMC Cancer. 2024 Apr 8;24(1):436.
doi: 10.1186/s12885-024-12225-6 – PubMed ID: 38589856
