Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy.
Division of Medical Oncology, IRCCS Foundation Home for the Relief of Suffering, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
CA Cancer J Clin. 2022 Jul;72(4):372-401. doi: 10.3322/caac.21728. Epub 2022 Apr 26.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents approximately 10% of all cancers and is the second most common cause of cancer deaths. Initial clinical presentation as metastatic CRC (mCRC) occurs in approximately 20% of patients. Moreover, up to 50% of patients with localized disease eventually develop metastases. Appropriate clinical management of these patients is still a challenging medical issue. Major efforts have been made to unveil the molecular landscape of mCRC. This has resulted in the identification of several druggable tumor molecular targets with the aim of developing personalized treatments for each patient. This review summarizes the improvements in the clinical management of patients with mCRC in the emerging era of precision medicine. In fact, molecular stratification, on which the current treatment algorithm for mCRC is based, although it does not completely represent the complexity of this disease, has been the first significant step toward clinically informative genetic profiling for implementing more effective therapeutic approaches. This has resulted in a clinically relevant increase in mCRC disease control and patient survival. The next steps in the clinical management of mCRC will be to integrate the comprehensive knowledge of tumor gene alterations, of tumor and microenvironment gene and protein expression profiling, of host immune competence as well as the application of the resulting dynamic changes to a precision medicine-based continuum of care for each patient. This approach could result in the identification of individual prognostic and predictive parameters, which could help the clinician in choosing the most appropriate therapeutic program(s) throughout the entire disease journey for each patient with mCRC. CA Cancer J Clin. 2022;72:000-000.
结直肠癌(CRC)约占所有癌症的 10%,是癌症死亡的第二大主要原因。约 20%的患者在初始时表现为转移性 CRC(mCRC)。此外,高达 50%的局限性疾病患者最终会发展为转移。对这些患者进行适当的临床管理仍然是一个具有挑战性的医学问题。人们已经做出了巨大的努力来揭示 mCRC 的分子图谱。这导致了鉴定出几个可靶向治疗的肿瘤分子靶标,旨在为每个患者制定个性化的治疗方法。这篇综述总结了在精准医学的新兴时代,mCRC 患者临床管理的改善。事实上,尽管分子分层并不能完全代表这种疾病的复杂性,但它是实现更有效治疗方法的临床相关遗传分析的第一步,目前的 mCRC 治疗算法正是基于这一分层。这导致 mCRC 疾病控制和患者生存的临床相关提高。mCRC 临床管理的下一步将是整合肿瘤基因改变的综合知识、肿瘤和微环境基因和蛋白质表达谱、宿主免疫能力,以及将由此产生的动态变化应用于每个 mCRC 患者基于精准医学的连续护理。这种方法可以确定个体预后和预测参数,这可以帮助临床医生在 mCRC 患者的整个疾病过程中为每个患者选择最合适的治疗方案。CA Cancer J Clin. 2022;72:000-000.
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