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Evolving Multidisciplinary Management of Colorectal Liver Metastases

September 23, 2020

Kevin Billingsley, MD, MBA, FACS, David Madoff, MD and Michael Cecchini, MD

Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds | September 22, 2020

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Transcript

  • 00:00Agenda welcome everyone to Cancer
  • 00:03Center grand rounds and really
  • 00:05pleased to have three various themed
  • 00:08colleagues presenting and I, you know,
  • 00:12I think if there's one particular theme
  • 00:15that I think emerges among many from
  • 00:19today's forum is that we have what's
  • 00:23really great is the number of talented
  • 00:26people across multiple disciplines.
  • 00:28Who are making progress on pivotal questions
  • 00:32in cancer care in Cancer Research,
  • 00:34and I think today's forum is just you
  • 00:37know one very clear of many examples
  • 00:40of three individuals doing great work,
  • 00:42each coming from it from a different
  • 00:45discipline but working together towards
  • 00:47really making a difference for patients
  • 00:49for the field and and obviously advancing
  • 00:52our research and educational agenda.
  • 00:54And I I would, I'll do.
  • 00:57I'd like to do is really.
  • 00:59Introduce one of our speakers and ask him
  • 01:02to then introduce the other colleague.
  • 01:05So let me introduce Kevin Billingslea,
  • 01:07who I think frankly in the past.
  • 01:10I guess nine months or so really
  • 01:13needs no introduction.
  • 01:14Kevin, as many of you know,
  • 01:17joined us in in or about January.
  • 01:20As our chief medical officer for the Yale
  • 01:23Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital.
  • 01:26And is also a professor in
  • 01:28the Department of surgery.
  • 01:30Kevin is responsible for our
  • 01:33clinical enterprise,
  • 01:33working with our leaders in
  • 01:36nursing and other disciplines,
  • 01:37and has really done an extraordinary
  • 01:40job and certainly working.
  • 01:42You know,
  • 01:43arriving here and nothing less stepping
  • 01:45into the frying pan with Kovid.
  • 01:48And really the need to work
  • 01:51collaboratively across so many
  • 01:53people to execute on what was heroic.
  • 01:56An extraordinary response on so many parts.
  • 01:59Kevin,
  • 01:59beyond his success as our
  • 02:02chief medical officer,
  • 02:03is an international leader in
  • 02:05the clinical care and research
  • 02:08of patients with a paddle,
  • 02:10biliary cancers,
  • 02:11as well as gastrointestinal ligatures.
  • 02:13Legacies before joining us here,
  • 02:15Kevin was a professor at Oregon
  • 02:18Health and Science University
  • 02:20where he was the medical director
  • 02:23of the Knight Cancer Institute and
  • 02:25the chief of surgical oncology,
  • 02:28and Kevin is going to.
  • 02:30Take over with our discussion of
  • 02:32evolving multidisciplinary management
  • 02:33of colorectal liver metastases,
  • 02:35and I'll let Kevin take over and
  • 02:38introduce the other great faculty,
  • 02:40Kevin, thank you.
  • 02:42Charlie,
  • 02:43thanks, thank you so much for that
  • 02:46really gracious introduction.
  • 02:48I'm thrilled to be here.
  • 02:50We're going to do kind of A tag
  • 02:53team screen sharing here and let me
  • 02:54see if I can get going with that.
  • 03:10OK, is that working for folks?
  • 03:12I I only see you Kevin. OK.
  • 03:37There you go. Got
  • 03:47it, how about that OK? Well, you
  • 03:55know it's as Charlie alluded to.
  • 03:57I've had the pleasure of spending much of my
  • 04:00career as hepatobiliary surgical oncologist.
  • 04:03And you know, I will share that one of
  • 04:06the most gratifying aspects of my time
  • 04:09in surgical oncology is participating
  • 04:12and witnessing the dramatic advances
  • 04:14that we have had in the multidisciplinary
  • 04:18care of patients with colorectal liver
  • 04:22metastases and one of the things that
  • 04:24I was most excited about is I prepared
  • 04:27for my transition to the ill Cancer
  • 04:30Center in Smilow.
  • 04:32Cancer Hospital was the
  • 04:34fact that we truly have.
  • 04:36Kind of.
  • 04:37We essentially have a world class
  • 04:39team of experts across disciplines
  • 04:42who are contributing to the care
  • 04:45of this unique group of patients.
  • 04:49And we have all of the elements here and I
  • 04:53want to with that as a jumping off point.
  • 04:58Introduce my two partners in this
  • 05:01multidisciplinary grand rounds.
  • 05:02Doctor Michael Cicchini is a.
  • 05:05A seasoned veteran of Yale,
  • 05:07he's a graduate of the Albert
  • 05:10Einstein School of Medicine,
  • 05:12came here to New Haven for residency,
  • 05:15stayed on for fellowship,
  • 05:17and has just continued to rocket
  • 05:20to prominence from there.
  • 05:22Michael profited as many of our
  • 05:24fellows have from the mentorship
  • 05:27and guidance of doctor Jill Lacey,
  • 05:30who is as most of you know,
  • 05:33the Dean of our GI medical Oncologist.
  • 05:36Michael has carved out a really unique
  • 05:39spot for himself and our organization,
  • 05:42an increasingly across the country.
  • 05:44In a mix of traditional clinical
  • 05:46research and GI medical oncology
  • 05:48as well as phase one clinical trial
  • 05:51work and drug development.
  • 05:53So delighted to have him with me
  • 05:56today and as a clinical partner.
  • 05:59Next,
  • 06:00doctor David made off is a relatively
  • 06:04recent addition to the Yale team.
  • 06:06When I was preparing for my move here,
  • 06:10he was one of the most one of the
  • 06:14people that I was most excited
  • 06:18to partner with.
  • 06:19David,
  • 06:20his essentially written the book
  • 06:23on portal vein, embolization, and.
  • 06:25And optimization of the hepatic
  • 06:28remnant for in preparation for
  • 06:30complex hepatobiliary surgery,
  • 06:32he spent much there earlier part of
  • 06:35his career at the MD Anderson Cancer Center,
  • 06:39then transitioned back here to the
  • 06:41East Coast where he's at Cornell
  • 06:44for a number of years and then more
  • 06:47recently we've been fortunate to
  • 06:49recruit him as the vice chair for
  • 06:53clinical research and the section
  • 06:56chief of Interventional radiology.
  • 06:58And I will say kind of quickly.
  • 07:01Is this side note one of the things
  • 07:04that I enjoy most about caring for
  • 07:07patients with colorectal liver metastases?
  • 07:09Is that it really is a team sport.
  • 07:13This multidisciplinary grand rounds
  • 07:14does highlight a number of us who are
  • 07:18involved from surgery, medical oncology,
  • 07:20Interventional radiology.
  • 07:21I do feel little remiss in not
  • 07:24having some other folks on a panel
  • 07:26who were important contributors
  • 07:27such as radiation oncology.
  • 07:29And other disciplines,
  • 07:31but I know we'll have other opportunities.
  • 07:34So this is a very comprehensive field.
  • 07:37We're not going to cover everything today.
  • 07:40Our goal is a team is to kind of give
  • 07:44you some broad brush overviews
  • 07:46of developments and high points.
  • 07:49I will be talking.
  • 07:50I'll be giving an overview and talking
  • 07:53about some surgical strategies mainly
  • 07:55focusing on patients with advanced disease.
  • 07:58Doctor made off will be talking about
  • 08:01his real area of world class expertise.
  • 08:05Which is various techniques to optimize the
  • 08:08liver remnant to support complex resection.
  • 08:11Role of Interventional radiology
  • 08:13and Michael will be updating us on
  • 08:17the numerous advances and systemic
  • 08:19chemotherapy for the disease.
  • 08:21Well, the idea of resecting colorectal
  • 08:24liver metastases is not new.
  • 08:27You know surgeons have been
  • 08:29doing this for 40 plus years.
  • 08:32What is exciting is the developments
  • 08:35that have been made in the safety
  • 08:39of these operations.
  • 08:40The number and variety of technical
  • 08:43approaches and the slow but steady
  • 08:46increase in long-term survival that
  • 08:49patients enjoy after these procedures.
  • 08:52Why would we focus on aggressive
  • 08:55liver directed therapy for this
  • 08:57patient with liver metastases?
  • 08:59Well,
  • 08:59as many of you understand,
  • 09:02the liver disease in metastatic
  • 09:04colorectal cancer often serves as
  • 09:07as the main source of Morbidity
  • 09:09and mortality and affect the driver
  • 09:12demise for folks with this disease.
  • 09:15And this occurs through a number of pathways.
  • 09:18Patients with bulky disease can
  • 09:21experience liver failure more commonly.
  • 09:23They suffer from progressive biliary
  • 09:26obstruction which is understandable,
  • 09:28untreatable,
  • 09:28and once this occurs an they're jaundice,
  • 09:32it is very difficult to.
  • 09:35Provide ongoing effective
  • 09:36systemic chemotherapy,
  • 09:38and it leads to kind of a downhill spiral.
  • 09:43The good news is that from multiple currents.
  • 09:48Case series we know that complete
  • 09:51resection of colorectal liver metastases
  • 09:54patients can enjoy up to and sometimes
  • 09:57more of 50% five year survival rate,
  • 10:00yet, there remain significant challenges.
  • 10:02Roughly,
  • 10:02only 20% of patients with this
  • 10:05disease process are resectable at
  • 10:07the time that presentation,
  • 10:09and even with aggressive surgical
  • 10:12therapy recurrence,
  • 10:13remains frustratingly high.
  • 10:14Often you know 80% at about
  • 10:17the five year mark.
  • 10:19I don't want to steal doctor
  • 10:22Cecchini's Thunder here,
  • 10:23and I apologize for stepping on his turf,
  • 10:27but no self respecting surgical
  • 10:29oncologist would talk about progress
  • 10:32in this area without some mention of
  • 10:35the groundbreaking advances that have
  • 10:37been made in systemic chemotherapy.
  • 10:39I think this timeline kind of
  • 10:42tells the story.
  • 10:43We've gone from the 5F U era,
  • 10:46which was the case for many years is.
  • 10:50Really,
  • 10:51the only chemotherapeutic option
  • 10:53in this disease with a 12 to 14
  • 10:57month median survival to our current
  • 10:59modern regiments with Folfox,
  • 11:02Folfiri and increasingly triplet
  • 11:04chemotherapy or patients even
  • 11:06without surgery,
  • 11:07are enjoying survival of 29 plus months so.
  • 11:12As much as we have,
  • 11:14surgeons congratulate ourselves
  • 11:15on our technical wizardry of big
  • 11:18piece of the progress in the
  • 11:21background is effective chemotherapy.
  • 11:23So this is what I is, a surgical oncologist.
  • 11:27Love to see a patient with
  • 11:29easily resectable disease,
  • 11:31limited number of tumors,
  • 11:33one maybe two tumors that are
  • 11:35peripherally placed not in close
  • 11:37proximity to major vascular structures,
  • 11:40and these folks are amenable to
  • 11:42an atomic or segmental resection.
  • 11:44The surgical options for manageing
  • 11:47folks like this are manifold.
  • 11:49They can be treated well within
  • 11:51traditional open operation. Lapre Scopic.
  • 11:54Liver resection is now in the mainstream,
  • 11:57and increasingly we're used
  • 11:59utilizing the robotic platform
  • 12:01to address some of these tumors.
  • 12:04Now more commonly,
  • 12:05what we see particularly at
  • 12:07large academic medical centers,
  • 12:09such as we work in our patients who have
  • 12:13advanced colorectal liver metastases.
  • 12:15These are patients with multi focal disease.
  • 12:18Often the diseases bilateral on
  • 12:20both sides of the liver and often
  • 12:23their bulky lesions which are in
  • 12:26close proximity to major vascular
  • 12:28structures or portal pedicles.
  • 12:30So I'm going to share the story of
  • 12:33a 48 year old woman who I treated
  • 12:37in Portland about eight years ago.
  • 12:40She presented with bulky,
  • 12:41complex liver disease,
  • 12:43Anna sigmoid non obstructed
  • 12:45sigmoid primary cancer in place.
  • 12:47So not to dwell on too many
  • 12:50liver technicalities,
  • 12:51but she had a high central liver
  • 12:53lesion in close proximity to the
  • 12:55vena cava sitting right under the
  • 12:58confluence of the three hepatic veins.
  • 13:00Should an additional bulky lesion
  • 13:03in segment for the liver sitting
  • 13:05in proximity to one of the pedicles
  • 13:08in the in the middle hepatic vein?
  • 13:11And then she had another bulky
  • 13:13lesion in segment five and six
  • 13:15on the right side of the liver.
  • 13:18So this is a perfect segue into the
  • 13:20need for multidisciplinary multi
  • 13:23disciplinary strategies to address
  • 13:25patients like this with advanced
  • 13:29colorectal liver metastases.
  • 13:31And I'm going to talk today in my
  • 13:35section about 3 strategies to to
  • 13:38approach this group of patients,
  • 13:41all requiring the integration
  • 13:43of multiple disciplines.
  • 13:46Probably the most common is what we
  • 13:49described is conversion chemotherapy,
  • 13:52which involves the upfront utilization
  • 13:55of multiagent chemotherapy.
  • 13:57Usually oxaliplatin based to downstage
  • 14:00tumors within the range of respectability.
  • 14:04Another approach that is increasingly
  • 14:06used at high volume centers around the
  • 14:09world is what we call staged habit ectomy.
  • 14:12This is breaking the surgical
  • 14:14treatment up into two sessions
  • 14:16with an intervening procedure
  • 14:17called portal vein embolization,
  • 14:19which leads to optimization of
  • 14:21growth of the plant hepatic remnant.
  • 14:24And then the last topic I will
  • 14:27touch on briefly is something that
  • 14:29many of us around the world are
  • 14:31starting to do which is complex
  • 14:34parenchymal sparing receptions,
  • 14:36which allow simultaneous resection
  • 14:38of multiple sites of disease.
  • 14:41So the patient I described did
  • 14:42go on to have eight cycles of
  • 14:45Folfox with bevacizumab Avastin,
  • 14:47and she was in the subset of patients
  • 14:50who enjoyed a stunning response.
  • 14:52As you can see,
  • 14:54the central lesion shrunk dramatically.
  • 14:56You can start to see some width on the Ivy,
  • 15:00see a little more space around
  • 15:02the dip attic veins.
  • 15:04This lesion is now shrunk
  • 15:06away from the left portal.
  • 15:08Pedicle involves the caudate lobe of
  • 15:10the liver which is a bit of a tricky
  • 15:14place to operate but now has good clearances.
  • 15:17The left pedicle segment for
  • 15:19lesion significantly smaller and
  • 15:20the right side liver lesion,
  • 15:22also smaller.
  • 15:23This allowed us to take her to the
  • 15:25operating room and one operative setting.
  • 15:29Treat her with a left hip.
  • 15:30It ectomy a caudate lobe resection segment
  • 15:336 or section in a sigmoid colectomy.
  • 15:36This was her diseases that appeared
  • 15:39in the operating room, stomach,
  • 15:41liver, Gallbladder, and the caudate.
  • 15:44Lesion shrunken in partially calcified.
  • 15:47The segment 56 lesion again nice response
  • 15:50partially calcified and what she wound
  • 15:53up with his complex bilateral resection,
  • 15:55but with plenty of good healthy liver
  • 15:58remnant left and I know everyone
  • 16:01reports their greatest success.
  • 16:03What happened with this lady is
  • 16:05she had a single side of recurrent
  • 16:08disease about two years after that we
  • 16:11treated with a little wedge resection
  • 16:14and she is disease free at last.
  • 16:17Follow up about 8 years out.
  • 16:20So what we've learned over the
  • 16:22years in the French are really led
  • 16:25the way in this is that patients
  • 16:28can enjoy even after chemotherapy.
  • 16:30Conversion can enjoy a very high
  • 16:33rate of long-term survival.
  • 16:35This is data from Renee.
  • 16:37A damn now presented years ago,
  • 16:39but makes the point.
  • 16:41They looked at their subset of
  • 16:43patients from their entire spectrum
  • 16:45of liver metastases who are respected
  • 16:48after conversion chemotherapy.
  • 16:50And although this group of patients
  • 16:53who were converted to Resectable
  • 16:55did not enjoy the survival that
  • 16:58the primary population did,
  • 17:0033% five year survival in a subset of
  • 17:05patients extending out into the eight
  • 17:07to 10 year mark as my patient did.
  • 17:11I'd only just you.
  • 17:13While I was there, my partner,
  • 17:16Sky Mayo and I took a kind of
  • 17:19a new is old or old.
  • 17:22Is new approach to kind of
  • 17:24optimizing this approach.
  • 17:25We started a hepatic
  • 17:27arterial infusion program.
  • 17:28As many of you know,
  • 17:31this involves the placement of a
  • 17:33chemotherapy pump in a catheter
  • 17:35into the hepatic artery to deliver
  • 17:38focus chemotherapy with the
  • 17:40aim of converting patients.
  • 17:41It's a complex operation involves
  • 17:44dissection of the hepatic artery
  • 17:46placement at the pump in a subcutaneous
  • 17:49pocket with installation of FDR.
  • 17:51We did this in combination with
  • 17:54systemic chemotherapy with Folfox.
  • 17:56I'm just going to quickly report these
  • 17:59results we placed about 27 pumps.
  • 18:02At this time we analyze data.
  • 18:05We looked at the 1st 20.
  • 18:07Two of these pumps, all.
  • 18:09A subset for unresectable disease.
  • 18:15Many of these were high risk disease,
  • 18:1836% with the K Ras mutant.
  • 18:20All had synchronous disease.
  • 18:22All had multiple liver lesions.
  • 18:24The point relate relative to this talk
  • 18:28that I'd like to point out is that.
  • 18:31Of the 13 patients that we were
  • 18:34aiming to convert to respectability,
  • 18:37a subset we were able to eventually
  • 18:39get to the operating room with
  • 18:42very extensive bilateral disease,
  • 18:44so this is yet another kind of
  • 18:47regional chemotherapy strategy to
  • 18:48convert patients to Resectable.
  • 18:50Another approach that is done
  • 18:52throughout the world that is
  • 18:55facilitated by David's work is
  • 18:57a two stage HEPA tech to me.
  • 18:59This is for patients with complex.
  • 19:02Lateral disease,
  • 19:03they go to the operating room in one
  • 19:05session and either have reception of
  • 19:08the left liver disease or ablation.
  • 19:10Then they go on to portal vein embolization,
  • 19:13which leads to hypertrophy of
  • 19:14the left liver and the
  • 19:16remainder of the disease is
  • 19:18respected in a second operation.
  • 19:20And this is a strategy that allows
  • 19:23us to treat what can be otherwise
  • 19:28completely unrespectable disease.
  • 19:30So series from around the world to
  • 19:32demonstrate that even for patients
  • 19:34with advanced bilateral disease,
  • 19:36if we can complete the two stage resection,
  • 19:39we can provide patients with
  • 19:41excellent long-term survival.
  • 19:42There is always going to be a subset
  • 19:44of patients who dropped out due to
  • 19:47progression between the operations
  • 19:49or in the course of therapy.
  • 19:51And unfortunately,
  • 19:52those folks don't do well,
  • 19:54but this is a great strategy to
  • 19:56get patients to the operating room.
  • 20:00One of the things that I in a
  • 20:02number of other surgeons that
  • 20:04started to do in recent years,
  • 20:06is exploit the concept of
  • 20:08the R1 Vascular margin.
  • 20:10This is related to the fact that there
  • 20:13is going to be a subset of patients
  • 20:15like this who have bulky tumors and
  • 20:18the diseases in close proximity to
  • 20:20a major vein or poorly pedicle.
  • 20:22But it is possible if you can get a
  • 20:25wide resection margin on the rest
  • 20:27of it and get a very narrow margin
  • 20:30that's positive only on the vein to
  • 20:33get excellent local Disease Control
  • 20:35in that part of the liver and still
  • 20:38preserve significant liver parenchyma.
  • 20:40My Friend Doctor Guido Tort
  • 20:42Caelian Milano has been kind of
  • 20:44the primary proponent of this,
  • 20:46and I think that this is a strategy
  • 20:49that is gaining traction and many
  • 20:52HP be centers around the world.
  • 20:55Guido and his team have reported their
  • 20:58experience and one of the things that
  • 21:01I think his striking is that patients
  • 21:04who have you compare their survival.
  • 21:07When you compare R0 resection with R1
  • 21:10resection from the liver parenchyma,
  • 21:13there's clearly decrement in survival.
  • 21:15However,
  • 21:16the group that have an R1 margin
  • 21:19only on a vessel have a survival.
  • 21:22It is virtually identical to
  • 21:25those that are R0 resection.
  • 21:27I think that this is a great example
  • 21:30of a theme that we see across surgical
  • 21:34oncology and multiple diseases breast cancer.
  • 21:37The most notable here where we
  • 21:39overtime have gone to a multi modality
  • 21:42approach involving chemotherapy,
  • 21:44radiation and much more limited
  • 21:46surgery going from radical mastectomy
  • 21:48to breast conservation.
  • 21:50Now moving towards even eliminate ING the
  • 21:53axle airy component of breast cancer surgery.
  • 21:56Same in head and neck.
  • 21:58Laryngeal preservation,
  • 21:59possibly preservation of the
  • 22:01rectum in Rectal carcinomas.
  • 22:03Sarcomas off ajil cancer.
  • 22:05The theme is consistent
  • 22:07throughout integration.
  • 22:08Multi modality therapy allows
  • 22:10a more conservative operation,
  • 22:11and I think we're getting there
  • 22:15and liver cancer.
  • 22:16This was one of my cases from Portland,
  • 22:19not a great picture,
  • 22:20but a patient who I took care of.
  • 22:22You had multifocal disease in the
  • 22:24upper part of the right side of
  • 22:26the liver and left liver requiring
  • 22:28reception down on to the hepatic
  • 22:30veins and right point medical.
  • 22:31Kind of a wedge resection on the left side,
  • 22:34all able to do this in a single operation.
  • 22:37The greatest thing about this
  • 22:39is that all of these
  • 22:41strategies do require multidisciplinary care.
  • 22:44An integration, as I take off my
  • 22:47surgeon hat and put on my CMO hat,
  • 22:50all of these strategies come together
  • 22:52in the fact that our aim at the
  • 22:56Yale Cancer Center through both our
  • 22:58care signature effort as well as
  • 23:01our multidisciplinary disease teams,
  • 23:03is to create a wrap around set
  • 23:06of services for our patients.
  • 23:08As I mentioned, it's not just liver
  • 23:11surgery and medical oncology.
  • 23:13An Interventional radiology.
  • 23:14We need to coordinate care for
  • 23:16many of these patients,
  • 23:18including radiation therapy.
  • 23:19Image Ng, including nuclear medicine.
  • 23:22Of course, oncology, nursing,
  • 23:23pathology, social work,
  • 23:25our colleagues in colorectal cancer
  • 23:27surgery need to be involved in genetics,
  • 23:30and I think that's the promise.
  • 23:32An fun of what we're doing,
  • 23:35so I'd like to hand off now
  • 23:38to doctor made off.
  • 23:40Thank you David.
  • 23:43I guess I need
  • 23:44to stop my screen. Share
  • 23:46my screen here.
  • 23:48And.
  • 23:57OK, so can you can
  • 24:01you will hear me.
  • 24:06Yes, we can hear you. So what I would
  • 24:09first like to thank Charlie and Kevin,
  • 24:11as well as my for giving me the
  • 24:13opportunity today to speak at the
  • 24:15El Cancer Center grand rounds.
  • 24:17As you may recall,
  • 24:18I didn't discuss this topic of
  • 24:20liver regeneration in last December,
  • 24:22but today I will be focusing on how
  • 24:24these techniques relate to optimizing
  • 24:25the anticipated future liver remnant
  • 24:27prior to resection in patients,
  • 24:29really with only colorectal liver metastases.
  • 24:31Very happy to be here in terms of the
  • 24:34fact that this is, like Kevin said,
  • 24:36this is really in my life's.
  • 24:38Work and passion and having the
  • 24:41opportunity is for me very, very nice.
  • 24:46So. As you just heard from Kevin,
  • 24:50there have been tremendous
  • 24:51advances and Pat ability.
  • 24:53Every surgical techniques,
  • 24:54such that death is now considered rare.
  • 24:56However,
  • 24:56complications such as fluid retention,
  • 24:58Cola stasis,
  • 24:59an impaired synthetic function still
  • 25:00contribute to prolong recovery times.
  • 25:02An extended hospital stays.
  • 25:03This is particularly true
  • 25:05instead of an extent,
  • 25:06but did have a tech to me where 5 or
  • 25:08more per node segments are removed,
  • 25:11and in fact,
  • 25:12as you can see,
  • 25:13the mortality in this setting
  • 25:15can approach 8 to 10%.
  • 25:18This can be seen from this French study.
  • 25:20There is direct correlation between
  • 25:22the number of overall complications
  • 25:25and the size of the liver remnant,
  • 25:27and this is not in regards to the
  • 25:29severity of the overall complications,
  • 25:31but really only the complication rate.
  • 25:34So at this time there's really
  • 25:36no limit to how smaller liver in.
  • 25:47In order to reduce the morbidity of Petra
  • 25:51section at least 20% mushrooming in patients
  • 25:54with normal underlying liver that is.
  • 25:56For example, patients that have colon
  • 25:58cancer Mets to the liver without ever
  • 26:02having touch chemotherapy 30% in injured
  • 26:04liver such as those that have had extensive
  • 26:07chemotherapy or Seattle hepatitis and
  • 26:1040% in those with underlying cirrhosis.
  • 26:12So there's many preoperative strategies
  • 26:15to prepare the liver for resection and.
  • 26:18These include Portland Embolization,
  • 26:19which was briefly discussed
  • 26:21by Kevin radiation lobectomy.
  • 26:23There's an apps procedure that will
  • 26:25get into briefly and also something
  • 26:28called liberties deprivation.
  • 26:30Support and embolization is
  • 26:32the original strategy,
  • 26:33first described by professional recruiters
  • 26:35group from the University of Tokyo in 1990.
  • 26:37It's been used to redirect portal blood
  • 26:40flow to the future liver remnant or FLR,
  • 26:42and by doing so,
  • 26:44initiate hypertrophy of the non embolized
  • 26:46segments and by doing this we can reduce
  • 26:48the number of overall perioperative
  • 26:50complications and increase the pool
  • 26:52of potential surgical candidates who
  • 26:54have what we call marginal anticipated
  • 26:56future liver remnant volumes.
  • 26:57Please note that the goal is really
  • 26:59not to improve the overall survival
  • 27:01after resection is compared to
  • 27:03those that did not require PV.
  • 27:05It's just really to achieve similar
  • 27:08survival rates to those patients
  • 27:10who want to undergo surgery.
  • 27:12It did not actually require
  • 27:14PV an ultimate until recently.
  • 27:16The general consensus was the PV was the
  • 27:19standard of care at most had ability,
  • 27:21every centers worldwide or safe
  • 27:23and effective generate generation
  • 27:25or generation of the FLR.
  • 27:27It's now been over a decade since
  • 27:30the first meta analysis of usefulness
  • 27:32of PV was published,
  • 27:33and in this study they would do 37
  • 27:36publications with over 1000 patients
  • 27:38and found a previous states with a
  • 27:40low mortality and morbidity rate.
  • 27:42Further,
  • 27:4285% of the patients were able to
  • 27:44get their proposed surgery.
  • 27:46However,
  • 27:46as you can see down here is that
  • 27:49there was a substantial group of
  • 27:51patients that were not respected
  • 27:53and this was due mostly to disease
  • 27:55progression or insufficient.
  • 27:56I purchased it.
  • 27:59I stated previously the goal of PV
  • 28:01in the setting of colorectal cancer
  • 28:04is to get similar survival rates to
  • 28:06those patients who do not require PV.
  • 28:09Here we see two actually French
  • 28:11studies and pretty old.
  • 28:13There actually showed where
  • 28:14these outcomes were born out.
  • 28:17Now PV E not only causes the
  • 28:19Liberty purchase fee,
  • 28:20but it also results in improved
  • 28:22function of the FLR and this has
  • 28:24been shown by nuclear medicine
  • 28:26studies with alobar function shifted
  • 28:28from the embolized than an embolism
  • 28:30for after tbe further in patients
  • 28:32with Hilar Cholangio Carcinoma,
  • 28:33who had biliary drainage catheters more
  • 28:35bile is produced in the non embolized
  • 28:38bourbon in the embolized liver and Lastly.
  • 28:40We can see that less alterations in liver
  • 28:43function tests after resection occur
  • 28:45following PV even knows in which P VE.
  • 28:48Was not performed.
  • 28:49So for decades CT has been the
  • 28:51cornerstone for surgical planning and
  • 28:53when assessing the FL are we do our
  • 28:57calculations based only on the size of
  • 28:59the liver. Remaining siti does directly
  • 29:01measure the future liver remnant and the
  • 29:04total liver volume is not actually measured,
  • 29:06but rather it's estimated from
  • 29:08the Association between the
  • 29:09liver and patient size.
  • 29:11And this is based on body waiting patients,
  • 29:14body surface area or a larger
  • 29:16patient would need a large deliver.
  • 29:18Smaller patient may need a smaller liver.
  • 29:20The FL R2 total estimated liver volume
  • 29:23ratio can then allow for uniform comparison.
  • 29:25Adefa lower volume parts of resection,
  • 29:27whether or not PVE was performed.
  • 29:29And this is the formula which is
  • 29:31based on a linear regression equation
  • 29:33from over 500 Western adults.
  • 29:35It's critical to understand the
  • 29:37denominator does not change on the pre
  • 29:40and post CT scans because it is an estimate.
  • 29:42One must realize that PV E does cause
  • 29:45atrophy of the emboli segments that
  • 29:47there have been cases where the total
  • 29:49liver volume is directly measured.
  • 29:51And went down after PV E.
  • 29:53Therefore,
  • 29:54even if the numerator is unchanged, the FL,
  • 29:57our percentage may inadvertently increase,
  • 29:59giving once a false sense of
  • 30:01belief that hypertrophy did occur.
  • 30:03And unfortunately patients have died
  • 30:05after surgery when this happens.
  • 30:07So if we look at this patient with
  • 30:10colorectal liver metastases here
  • 30:12we see approximately 4 weeks later
  • 30:15that the FLR grew from 17 to 30%
  • 30:18or degree of hypertrophy of 13%.
  • 30:20This patient also had.
  • 30:21Kinetic growth rate of 3.5%,
  • 30:23which is a good indicator and this
  • 30:26will be discussed in much more
  • 30:28detail in a little bit.
  • 30:32In recent years,
  • 30:32there's actually been controversy as
  • 30:34to be appropriate limit for resection,
  • 30:36and this may depend on the institution
  • 30:39and the formula being used.
  • 30:40In Europe, for example, therapies
  • 30:42uses the cut off for the need for pbe.
  • 30:45That said, we showed during my time at MD
  • 30:47Anderson there statistically significant
  • 30:49differences in outcome, whether it
  • 30:51be from liver insufficiency or death.
  • 30:53If you have less than percent, FL are,
  • 30:56however, no differences were found.
  • 30:57Once you had more than 20%
  • 30:59of your FL are remaining.
  • 31:02And further,
  • 31:03we wanted to see the impact of
  • 31:05PV in the patient population
  • 31:07in this patient population.
  • 31:08We found that in those patients
  • 31:10that had at least 20%,
  • 31:12meaning that they already either
  • 31:14had 20% not requiring PV or had 20%,
  • 31:17and in those days we did it
  • 31:19with a higher environment to see
  • 31:21if there was any difference,
  • 31:23and we compared them to those patients
  • 31:25who had less than 20% and actually had
  • 31:28at least 20% and did not require PV,
  • 31:31E and compared them to those also that.
  • 31:34And did not have 20% and needed PV E.
  • 31:37And we found that as long as the
  • 31:39patient after PV at least 20%
  • 31:42of the future liver remnant,
  • 31:43it really was no difference in
  • 31:47what happened after resection.
  • 31:49So we talked about the brief
  • 31:50hypertrophy a little earlier.
  • 31:52So what is the degree of purchasing?
  • 31:54Well,
  • 31:54it's the post PV efl R minus the pre
  • 31:56PV EOFLR which gives you a dynamic
  • 31:58measure of liver regeneration and
  • 32:00this is important because there
  • 32:02is an amount of high purchase that
  • 32:04is necessary to review.
  • 32:05If you have complications in our study
  • 32:07published in MD Anderson in 2007,
  • 32:09you can see that those patients
  • 32:11that have more than 5% degree if I
  • 32:13purchase he had significantly less
  • 32:15complications that had more than 5% FL.
  • 32:17So here we have a tale of two rivers,
  • 32:21one patient with Cirrhosis,
  • 32:22and HTC who underwent a right
  • 32:25hip attacked me,
  • 32:26the other with colorectal liver
  • 32:27metastases and only had 5% steatosis
  • 32:30who underwent an extended right.
  • 32:31He protected me here.
  • 32:33We see that the cirrhotic patient
  • 32:35had excellent hypertrophy,
  • 32:36while the other patient had only 1% growth.
  • 32:39Interesting Lee, the cirrhotic patient,
  • 32:41did well after surgery,
  • 32:42while the patient that had the
  • 32:44normal liver or what we thought was
  • 32:47a pretty normal liver actually.
  • 32:49Died after their reception.
  • 32:50Therefore,
  • 32:51if we see that you can use these
  • 32:53numbers to see that patients that
  • 32:55have at least 20% FLR and at least 5%
  • 32:59degree of hypertrophy had a zero percent,
  • 33:0190 day mortality.
  • 33:02And like I said,
  • 33:04this information can be used when
  • 33:06trying to understand whether a
  • 33:08patient should be indicated for
  • 33:09their reception after PV.
  • 33:11So now that we know the floor cut
  • 33:14off numbers that is 20% for normal liver,
  • 33:1630% for injured liver from chemotherapy and.
  • 33:1940% for Cirrhosis,
  • 33:20and we know that if I purchased the 5%,
  • 33:23is this enough to really be able
  • 33:25to predict which
  • 33:26patients should have their surgeries?
  • 33:28So we now know that we've had
  • 33:31purchase fees based on the timing
  • 33:33of the image Ng and that a true
  • 33:35assessment of the epilogue growth is
  • 33:38difficult to compare among patients.
  • 33:40Therefore, we developed a new variable
  • 33:42called the kinetic growth rate or KJR,
  • 33:45which is the degree of hypertrophy
  • 33:47over the time elapsed from
  • 33:49PV E in the number of weeks.
  • 33:52So here we see three patients
  • 33:54with colorectal liver metastases,
  • 33:55each with a degree of hypertrophy,
  • 33:57well within the amount needed for successful,
  • 34:00safer section.
  • 34:01However, the patient on the bottom actually
  • 34:03died from liver failure after section,
  • 34:05so we went back and reviewed the cases
  • 34:08and found that the time for the first 2
  • 34:11patients with 35 days to get these results,
  • 34:13while we found that the patient had died,
  • 34:16it actually occurred in 70 days.
  • 34:18So when we went back and calculated
  • 34:20the kinetic growth rate,
  • 34:22the patient that I had only
  • 34:241 zero point 3% per week,
  • 34:26while the other two had
  • 34:29much higher growth rates.
  • 34:31Therefore, when assessing patients
  • 34:32which should have surgery,
  • 34:34we found that in order to really be safe,
  • 34:38that we really need 2% per week.
  • 34:41That led to know hepatic
  • 34:43insufficiency or 90 day mortality.
  • 34:46So,
  • 34:46is Kevin stated earlier we can now
  • 34:48extend the boundaries for safer section
  • 34:50by using advanced surgical strategies
  • 34:52such as the two stage protecting
  • 34:54me like for this pain titlebar,
  • 34:56colon article, living metastases,
  • 34:58patient first had systemic
  • 34:59chemotherapy with excellent response,
  • 35:00then had surgery to clear
  • 35:02the left lateral liver.
  • 35:03The FL,
  • 35:04our volumes were calculated
  • 35:05to be 16% of PV was performed,
  • 35:08and then FLR was then found to be 26%.
  • 35:11So the definitive resection
  • 35:13was then performed.
  • 35:14So to assess the benefit of
  • 35:16the two stage separate ectomy,
  • 35:18we reviewed patients who had
  • 35:20invented the advanced strategy
  • 35:21with extended pack resection and
  • 35:23compared those those that did not
  • 35:25have tumor in their FL are therefore
  • 35:27not really needing second stage.
  • 35:28Our results had shown that there
  • 35:30was no difference in overall and
  • 35:32disease free survival in those
  • 35:34patients that required the two stage
  • 35:36protect me as compared with those
  • 35:38that only required the one stage.
  • 35:40And as Kevin showed from our study from
  • 35:43MD Anderson in a really highly selected.
  • 35:45And she cohort who did complete
  • 35:47the second stage.
  • 35:48We were able to achieve a
  • 35:5060% five year survival,
  • 35:51which is really considered amazing.
  • 35:53Anything about a decade ago given to
  • 35:56buy Alobar nature of the disease.
  • 35:59However,
  • 35:59there is some concerns regarding team
  • 36:01be one of the major concerns is the
  • 36:04potential drop out of up to 35% of
  • 36:06patients due to an insufficient FL
  • 36:08are or or tumor progression within
  • 36:10the four to six week waiting period
  • 36:13from the TV to the definitive resection.
  • 36:15Therefore,
  • 36:16other approaches are needed.
  • 36:18So one.
  • 36:18Issue that has been entertained
  • 36:21has been that PV can lead to
  • 36:24expedited tumor growth,
  • 36:25so to that end the recent
  • 36:27data supports that we
  • 36:28can use chemotherapy during the
  • 36:29waiting period and also can be used
  • 36:32within the postoperative period
  • 36:33which at one time was thought to
  • 36:35maybe limit for generation. However,
  • 36:37that has not borne out to be the case.
  • 36:40So there are other alternative
  • 36:42approaches that we can use.
  • 36:44It is Interventional radiologist.
  • 36:46This is a case.
  • 36:47This is a study that was performed
  • 36:49from Korea where TV did not leave
  • 36:52the sufficient regeneration.
  • 36:54Anna Korean group found that
  • 36:55later performing right,
  • 36:56having bane embolization in
  • 36:58addition to the PV is shown here
  • 37:01actually result in better outcomes.
  • 37:03We've also used something
  • 37:05called radiation lobectomy.
  • 37:06This is done by the Transarterial Bar
  • 37:09Administration of Y-90 microparticles.
  • 37:11She's now an established means
  • 37:13of providing local tumor control
  • 37:15within the liver.
  • 37:16That said,
  • 37:17there was an unintended phenomenon
  • 37:19of contralateral liver I8 and seven
  • 37:21in several retrospective studies.
  • 37:23Contralateral hypertrophy?
  • 37:24A curd from 21 to 47%,
  • 37:26and therefore this has been suggested
  • 37:29as an alternative to PV with the
  • 37:32benefit of local tumor control.
  • 37:33And the test of time.
  • 37:36So we had talked about this earlier,
  • 37:38but nuclear medicine is showing
  • 37:41improved liver function after PV E
  • 37:43in this small study of 13 patients,
  • 37:45with some being colorectal liver
  • 37:47metastases who underwent some
  • 37:49nuclear medicine scintigraphy.
  • 37:50They showed that using radiation
  • 37:52lobectomy actually can cause
  • 37:54changes in regional liver function,
  • 37:56and this correlated with the functional
  • 37:58liver absorbed doses from Y-90
  • 38:01and pack and then in 2014 a group
  • 38:03from France compared 141 patients
  • 38:05who underwent right PV with third.
  • 38:0835 patients who underwent radiation
  • 38:10lobectomy at two centers that were
  • 38:12matched for criterion known to
  • 38:15influence liver regeneration after PVD.
  • 38:17The radiation was performed if the authors
  • 38:19found the case would be challenging,
  • 38:21provid PB and to be honest,
  • 38:23I'm not sure why this would be,
  • 38:26but when they match the patients they found
  • 38:28significantly more hypertrophy after PV.
  • 38:30They concluded that while the hyper
  • 38:32chicken radiation lobectomy substantial
  • 38:33and doesn't minimize tumor progression,
  • 38:35PV can induce significantly greater,
  • 38:36and I purchased the in radiation
  • 38:38lobectomy with these therapeutic doses.
  • 38:40So how do you decide if you should
  • 38:42use PV or radiation lobectomy?
  • 38:44The decision should be based
  • 38:46on achievement intent,
  • 38:47such as.
  • 38:48Is the patient a candidate for section
  • 38:50now and what is the plan resection if
  • 38:52the reception should be done now you
  • 38:55should just go ahead and perform the P PE.
  • 38:57You also need to know what type of
  • 38:59malignancy patient has and whether the
  • 39:01patient has underlying liver disease.
  • 39:03Cases where patients have bottle
  • 39:05bar colorectal metastases that
  • 39:06require a Tuesday check.
  • 39:08Her protect me.
  • 39:08There is likely really no
  • 39:10role for radiation lobectomy,
  • 39:11as you can see,
  • 39:12I'm personally not in favor of the
  • 39:15radiation lobectomy in this approach,
  • 39:17as you would really need to do 190 of
  • 39:19both lobes and it seems appropriate
  • 39:21in the setting of HTC with cirrhosis.
  • 39:24But I don't think it really is
  • 39:26appropriate in the setting of
  • 39:28colorectal liver metastasis.
  • 39:30Another approach is Alps,
  • 39:31which is short for associating liver
  • 39:33partition and portal vein ligation.
  • 39:35This approach was proposed to
  • 39:36replace pbe with two surgeries.
  • 39:38He performed interactive right
  • 39:39portal vein ligation followed
  • 39:41by completely divest arising.
  • 39:42Segment four of the liver and
  • 39:44at the same session is surgeon
  • 39:46clears the floor of tumor.
  • 39:48The patient is then closed with
  • 39:50the tumor bearing liver in place,
  • 39:52while the FLL rapidly have Portuguese
  • 39:54and then the Sturgeon returns within
  • 39:567 to 10 days for a second laparotomy
  • 39:58to complete the definitive resection.
  • 40:00And early reports actually
  • 40:01showed very strong tumor growth.
  • 40:03I mean, fellow growth and was believed to
  • 40:06have a lower risk for tumor progression.
  • 40:09That being said,
  • 40:10when comparing PV 2 apps that were
  • 40:12the massive infest or hypertrophy
  • 40:14in the Alps Group,
  • 40:15but it came at a much higher cost
  • 40:18of major complications and death.
  • 40:20Interestingly,
  • 40:21while the kinetic growth rate
  • 40:22was found to be higher electron
  • 40:25microscopy studies from Japan showed
  • 40:27that the hepatocytes were not mature
  • 40:29and not really able to handle the
  • 40:31increased blood flow to the FL are.
  • 40:33Therefore,
  • 40:34it was shown that it is not simply
  • 40:36regenerating the liver rapidly,
  • 40:38but also in a way that allows
  • 40:40the hepatocytes maturan function
  • 40:41appropriately so interesting.
  • 40:43Lee,
  • 40:43a systematic review and meta
  • 40:45analysis for colorectal liver
  • 40:46metastases was performed,
  • 40:47confirming the findings of the faster
  • 40:49kinetic growth rate with Alps.
  • 40:51But with the increased morbidity
  • 40:53and mortality.
  • 40:53So for this reason numerous
  • 40:55modifications have been proposed,
  • 40:57many of which negated distinct advantages
  • 40:59of why Alps was proposed in the 1st place.
  • 41:02And Lastly,
  • 41:03I want to show a new procedure,
  • 41:05one that we will now be using it Yale,
  • 41:09while while I already showed sequential
  • 41:11PV into Patty being embolization,
  • 41:13Liberty is deprivation is performing PV.
  • 41:15And how do you been embolization
  • 41:17in a single session?
  • 41:18The goal is to shorten and optimize
  • 41:21the phase of liver preparation.
  • 41:23Or surgery without the
  • 41:24aggressive nature of Alps,
  • 41:26and in this early
  • 41:27feasibility study from 2016,
  • 41:28the procedure was found to be safe
  • 41:31and feasible in a small patient
  • 41:33cohort of only seven patients,
  • 41:35and then the same group then added
  • 41:37embolization of the middle of having pain
  • 41:39to the right hepatic vein embolization,
  • 41:41and they found that by doing so
  • 41:43they can get safe and provide the
  • 41:46most marketing rapid elevation in
  • 41:48hypertrophy and liver function.
  • 41:49Unprecedented for an IR procedure,
  • 41:51and just soon Kevin and I will
  • 41:53be the Copia eyes.
  • 41:55Or yell prospective clinical trial.
  • 41:57Looking at Libertines deprivation
  • 41:58called Dragon One and Dragon 2
  • 42:00dragon one is a feasibility study,
  • 42:02and Dragon 2 actually will compare it
  • 42:05to the standard of care which is PV.
  • 42:08So in conclusion,
  • 42:09liver regeneration is critical to
  • 42:11managing colorectal liver metastases,
  • 42:12and, as I hope to have shown,
  • 42:15there are numerous strategies
  • 42:16that can regenerate the liver,
  • 42:18either percutaneously or by surgical means.
  • 42:20Currently,
  • 42:21the understanding of Liberal generation
  • 42:22in this area is really at its infancy.
  • 42:25Any apples opportunities do
  • 42:27exist for research,
  • 42:27so I'm looking forward to
  • 42:29working with your team and
  • 42:31looking forward working with
  • 42:32Kevin on this dragon study and
  • 42:34thank you for your attention.
  • 42:36Thank you David, that was awesome.
  • 42:44Thanks bikini.
  • 42:49Kevin David, can you stop
  • 42:51sharing? OK, stop the sharing here, yeah?
  • 42:56Alright, so I'm Michael Cicchini.
  • 42:59I'm a medical Oncologist and
  • 43:02I'm going to talk about the chemotherapy
  • 43:06in the Peri operative management of these
  • 43:10liver metastases for colorectal cancer.
  • 43:14So first I'm going to talk
  • 43:18about the molecular profiling.
  • 43:20That's important to decide.
  • 43:22Chemotherapy agents as well as sightedness,
  • 43:25which is not truly molecular
  • 43:27profiling but certainly hasn't
  • 43:29impacted the chemotherapy selection.
  • 43:31The two types of patients we encounter,
  • 43:34the unrespectable patiently up respectable
  • 43:37biologics and then some of the damage
  • 43:41our agents can do that can complicate
  • 43:43the role of complicated surgery so.
  • 43:46Molecular profiling for colorectal cancer.
  • 43:48What information do I really need to
  • 43:50know to make a chemotherapy decision?
  • 43:52Wrap the grass in the raft status
  • 43:54are very important and they have
  • 43:56been so for some time mismatch
  • 43:58repair status microsatellite status,
  • 44:00which is analogous to that and
  • 44:02then the sightedness has become
  • 44:04increasingly important for determining
  • 44:05determining which biologic to use.
  • 44:07So the origin of the primary tumor was at
  • 44:10a left sided tumor or right sided tumors.
  • 44:13So to remind ourselves why Rasen
  • 44:15rap status is so important.
  • 44:17We need to go back to the EGFR pathway.
  • 44:20So EGFR here in this purple
  • 44:22is upstream of crowds.
  • 44:24B RAF MEK Erk.
  • 44:25So in our ask mutated cancer
  • 44:27or at mutated cancer.
  • 44:29This is this pathways constituently activated
  • 44:31below the level of the ship receptor.
  • 44:34We have drugs syntax Mammon,
  • 44:36Panitumumab two monoclonal antibodies
  • 44:37to target EGFR receptor that we add on
  • 44:40to chemotherapy, so they're effective.
  • 44:42If this pathway is not constituent active,
  • 44:45blow it.
  • 44:46So in a rash wild.
  • 44:47I porra filetype we add on
  • 44:52Panitumumab Humanized Monoclonal
  • 44:54Antibody an and or so or sucks Mad A.
  • 44:58A chimeric antibody,
  • 44:59but for the patients that are
  • 45:02mutated in rats,
  • 45:02we have to take a different approach.
  • 45:05So bad this is mab.
  • 45:07Kevin talked about a little bit
  • 45:09to monoclonal monoclonal antibody
  • 45:10against veg that Jeff Vascular
  • 45:12endothelial growth factor,
  • 45:13and that's also added on to chemotherapy
  • 45:15be Rapids become important just
  • 45:17in the last couple of years.
  • 45:19Now we have targeted agents for
  • 45:21that and Grafton if insta tox mad,
  • 45:24but for the Intents and purposes
  • 45:26of this stock graph is used as
  • 45:28a negative prognostic.
  • 45:29Mutation and most of those
  • 45:31patients are not can be included
  • 45:32in the consideration of surgery.
  • 45:34So why is the mismatch repair
  • 45:36status so important?
  • 45:37So to answer that,
  • 45:39we first have to remember what
  • 45:40mismatch repair proteins do.
  • 45:42So Emily age 1:00 PM S 2 Ms H2, and six.
  • 45:46These are the four most most clinically
  • 45:48relevant mismatch repair proteins.
  • 45:50Their function is to follow
  • 45:51the DNA polymerase machine DNA
  • 45:53polymerase machinery along as it
  • 45:55undoubtedly makes some mistakes.
  • 45:56It fixed these these single base mismatches,
  • 45:59which are most prevalent in these areas,
  • 46:01called microsatellites,
  • 46:02which are dynamically Titan tribe
  • 46:04nucleotide repeats across the genome.
  • 46:05You can imagine this DNA machinery.
  • 46:07It's really caught up on
  • 46:09all this repetitive DNA.
  • 46:10Lots of mistakes are made so
  • 46:12we know when these are lost.
  • 46:13Tumors have very high tumor
  • 46:15mutational burden that which leads
  • 46:16to a lot of Neoantigens.
  • 46:18We've known for some time that these
  • 46:19are some of the most sensitive cancers
  • 46:21to immunostimulatory therapies such
  • 46:23as anti PD one and four therapies.
  • 46:25So they've been approved in the refractory
  • 46:27setting for you for a few years but
  • 46:30only recently just a few months ago.
  • 46:32Did we get to see their activity
  • 46:34in the first line setting?
  • 46:35You can see very dramatic separation
  • 46:37of these two curves here.
  • 46:39Green being Pember Lizum app,
  • 46:40purple being the chemo arm for a first line.
  • 46:43Microsatellite instability.
  • 46:43High collector cancer.
  • 46:44I mean if we look at the two year mark here,
  • 46:47you're seeing 48% of patients that
  • 46:49are microsatellite instability,
  • 46:50higher progression, free and alive.
  • 46:52At at two years versus only 19% with chemo.
  • 46:54But for today's top,
  • 46:55what's really important to look?
  • 46:57Actually look at this part
  • 46:58of the curve on the far left,
  • 47:01because that's where anybody
  • 47:02that's going to surgery would be.
  • 47:04Maybe early on in their treatment journey
  • 47:06and you can actually see Pembroke behavior.
  • 47:09A bit more inferior to chemotherapy.
  • 47:11In this setting in a very rapid drop off,
  • 47:14even with Pam bro,
  • 47:16which obviously has a tail on this curve.
  • 47:18So immunotherapy in the new edge
  • 47:20of insteading for somebody that's
  • 47:22initially resectable, for example,
  • 47:23is definitely not ready for prime time.
  • 47:26And I think future directions will
  • 47:28certainly be chemo immunotherapy,
  • 47:29and hopefully will negate some
  • 47:31of the early drop off.
  • 47:32Why is sightedness important?
  • 47:34So we've known for some time
  • 47:36that high and got the left sided
  • 47:38Colon is a different embryologic.
  • 47:40Origin in the right right colon so
  • 47:42hindgut for left and got for right.
  • 47:44Right sided tumors generally worse prognosis,
  • 47:46more methylated tumors,
  • 47:47higher beer after some degree.
  • 47:49Higher crass and left side it more
  • 47:51than more traditional APC mutations
  • 47:53in TP 53 mutations and we know
  • 47:55that even if your rash wild type,
  • 47:57it matters whether or not you
  • 47:59respond to a EGFR antibodies such
  • 48:01as anti tumor map or cetuximab.
  • 48:03So it's really the rash wildtype left
  • 48:05sided tumors that we're thinking about
  • 48:07using these drugs in the first line setting.
  • 48:10And even if rash while typing right
  • 48:12sided data SIM it at this is a
  • 48:15map should still be considered.
  • 48:17So what are the drugs that we have
  • 48:20at our disposal to help these
  • 48:22patients so full Fox?
  • 48:24We've probably all heard full box,
  • 48:26full fury, full Fox series.
  • 48:28And when we use in pancreatic cancer here,
  • 48:31full fear knocks,
  • 48:32but they're slightly different approaches.
  • 48:34So what is folfox?
  • 48:35So five fluoro uracil,
  • 48:37which is patented by Charlie Heidelberger.
  • 48:39I think in 1957 and is still
  • 48:41around and going strong.
  • 48:43Is a family space inhibitor so
  • 48:45you don't have time to look
  • 48:47around for rapidly dividing cells.
  • 48:49Luca born potentiates the activity
  • 48:51of five FU.
  • 48:52It's a vitamin that we give
  • 48:54along with the chemotherapy.
  • 48:55Oxaliplatin is the oxen in full box,
  • 48:58and that's in platinum agent that causes
  • 49:00DNA addicts and ultimately results in
  • 49:02double stranded breaks and are in Attican,
  • 49:05which is the IRI. In full fury is.
  • 49:08Ultimately converted into its active form.
  • 49:09About summarize, one inhibitor,
  • 49:11SN 38 and ultimately also end
  • 49:12result is double stranded breaks,
  • 49:14so these are the main agents we have.
  • 49:16We started out again with just
  • 49:185F U and this is about what we
  • 49:21were doing back in the early 90s,
  • 49:23so we had about a median survival of 12
  • 49:25year for patients with mosaic answer.
  • 49:27When we started to have doublet
  • 49:29chemotherapy's in full box and full theory,
  • 49:31we move this out about the two year mark.
  • 49:34Now we're really between the two and three,
  • 49:36or mark or median overall survival.
  • 49:38For most, for most of our active trials
  • 49:41with colorectal cancer with folfox theory,
  • 49:43the triple combination that's a bit more
  • 49:45toxic and reserved for younger patients
  • 49:48is about a 32 month median survival,
  • 49:50so we have to ask ourselves at tumor board,
  • 49:53what does this patient have it with?
  • 49:55Cash pathway to cure?
  • 49:56So what our main goals with chemotherapy?
  • 49:59We've heard a little bit
  • 50:01about conversion therapy,
  • 50:02so converting the unrespectable
  • 50:03patient to a respectable patient.
  • 50:05If we have a patient that's upfront,
  • 50:07resectable chemotherapy can still be
  • 50:08useful to reduce the surgical complexity.
  • 50:11Eradicate micrometastatic disease,
  • 50:12which is also hopefully doing for
  • 50:14the unrespectable patient and then
  • 50:15also assess the biology of the
  • 50:17aggressiveness of the disease.
  • 50:19Is somebody actually getting a
  • 50:20response through chemotherapy,
  • 50:21or they just rapidly progressing?
  • 50:23That's not a patient you want
  • 50:25to surgery anyway,
  • 50:26and if we know that even in the best
  • 50:28of circumstances the patients never
  • 50:30going to get to a surgical option
  • 50:33that the treatment is prolonging life,
  • 50:35hopefully by controlling disease in
  • 50:37improving tumor related symptoms,
  • 50:38so we should think about this as two groups,
  • 50:41the unrespectable patient.
  • 50:42And the resectable patients.
  • 50:43So the upfront receptable patient and
  • 50:45just there's no right way to integrate
  • 50:48chemotherapy into these patients.
  • 50:50By the way,
  • 50:51different centers take different approaches,
  • 50:53but there's more nuanced than
  • 50:55just this slide.
  • 50:56But when to consider a front reception?
  • 50:59Generally, for fewer liver metastasis,
  • 51:00chemotherapy response?
  • 51:01Not really.
  • 51:02The surgeon doesn't really think
  • 51:04chemotherapy response is going to
  • 51:06lower the complexity of the operation.
  • 51:08But when do we do it when there's more
  • 51:11than four suspicious knodel involvement?
  • 51:13My Liberty disease.
  • 51:14But again, there's more nuanced to this,
  • 51:16so we have to we have to take everything.
  • 51:19Every aspect of the patient into account.
  • 51:21Do they have a lot of other comorbidities?
  • 51:24Where if they if they are not
  • 51:26tolerating chemotherapy well,
  • 51:26we're expecting significant increase
  • 51:28in liver liver damage,
  • 51:29which could complicate in operation?
  • 51:30Is there reason to suspect that
  • 51:32they have particularly aggressive
  • 51:34disease and you want to give him the
  • 51:36tincture of time on chemotherapy to
  • 51:38make sure they're not just rapidly
  • 51:39progressing and you're going to put
  • 51:41them through an unnecessary operation?
  • 51:43Did they recently received full Fox for?
  • 51:45For management of primary primary,
  • 51:48so could a slight response results
  • 51:52in maybe converting an
  • 51:54open reception to a laprascopic reception.
  • 51:59So what, what chemotherapy do
  • 52:00we typically use? So again,
  • 52:02these are patients that could be respected,
  • 52:04most likely, so full Fox,
  • 52:05a doublet chemotherapy,
  • 52:06perhaps with the biologic bevacizumab
  • 52:07panitumumab receptors amount,
  • 52:08but the important part is to limit the
  • 52:10number of chemo cycles as much as possible.
  • 52:13These patients that can get to surgery
  • 52:15quickly and should get to surgery quickly,
  • 52:17and we want to do as little
  • 52:18damage is possible to the to
  • 52:20the liver without chemotherapy.
  • 52:22So we should image patients early and
  • 52:23as soon as thought as soon as feasible.
  • 52:26These patients should be taken into surgery.
  • 52:28We generally plan to do six
  • 52:30months total of chemotherapy.
  • 52:31But the rest would be reserved for later.
  • 52:33So what about the unresectable patient?
  • 52:34Now this patient can't get this
  • 52:36surgery without a response,
  • 52:37so it's a different.
  • 52:38It's a different approach,
  • 52:39so we talked a little bit about
  • 52:41what is undetectable.
  • 52:42But so,
  • 52:43how likely is this understandable
  • 52:44patient going to get going to
  • 52:46be able to get an operation?
  • 52:47Perhaps as high as a third 1/3
  • 52:49of the time that we will get
  • 52:51enough cited reduction to convert
  • 52:52this patient to respectable?
  • 52:54But what regiment is best?
  • 52:55Again, if you look at guidelines,
  • 52:57both guidelines are very so.
  • 52:58The guidelines don't really
  • 52:59take much of a stand.
  • 53:01They say Folfox Folfiri Anna tumor map.
  • 53:03But this is a mad.
  • 53:04They kind of leave it up to the
  • 53:07treating oncologists asthma.
  • 53:08On the other hand,
  • 53:09takes a more dogmatic approach.
  • 53:10It says full flux is the recommendation
  • 53:12or for unresectable metastases.
  • 53:14Considerable Fox series,
  • 53:15so that's that's the approach
  • 53:16that we would take here,
  • 53:18predominantly in the United States
  • 53:19that most most centers would do.
  • 53:21But certainly here at Yale
  • 53:23for the younger fit patients,
  • 53:24we would be for an unrespectable patient.
  • 53:26We would do full foxy reefer.
  • 53:28This is a map, but for our upfront,
  • 53:30resectable patients we would
  • 53:32again just be doing a doublet.
  • 53:33So I'm going to skip through
  • 53:35this in the interest of time,
  • 53:37especially since Kevin showed
  • 53:39some of the slides are ready.
  • 53:41So what about our biologics?
  • 53:42So this is another level of nuance.
  • 53:45Again, to do our chemotherapy here.
  • 53:47So we have.
  • 53:48We have agents such as bad.
  • 53:50This is a map which is a vascular
  • 53:52endothelial growth factor antibody
  • 53:53against speculative growth factor,
  • 53:55which is created by the tumors and
  • 53:57stimulates blood vessel growth.
  • 53:58Because the tumor needs
  • 54:00increased vascularity,
  • 54:00so we know that bevacizumab
  • 54:02increases response rates,
  • 54:03but it can potentially increase
  • 54:05perioperative complications.
  • 54:05We see vascular events such as
  • 54:07such as arterial thrombi, Venus,
  • 54:09thrombi, on occasion perforations,
  • 54:11but the big concern is wound healing,
  • 54:13so we generally would hold
  • 54:15bevacizumab within six weeks
  • 54:16prior to any server dream.
  • 54:18There is some data that supports it
  • 54:20up to four weeks prior to surgery,
  • 54:23but but the concern is how you
  • 54:25when you hold it preoperatively.
  • 54:28So this is actually been looked at.
  • 54:30The addition of bevacizumab in systemic
  • 54:32therapy for unresectable liver metastasis.
  • 54:34So we have a cohort of patients
  • 54:36here split up into two groups.
  • 54:38These are all kras mutated
  • 54:40patients or patients that are
  • 54:42perfect fit for bevacizumab.
  • 54:43So full blocks plus bevacizumab
  • 54:45in arm a in Folfox alone.
  • 54:47In R&B you can see that the reception,
  • 54:50the rate of R0 Resection complete resection,
  • 54:5222 verses about 6% without
  • 54:54the berbasis matters so very,
  • 54:56very big difference about
  • 54:57getting to surgery there.
  • 54:58What about progression free survival 9 1/2
  • 55:01months median versus about 5 1/2 months
  • 55:03median favoring Bevis is maben blue here.
  • 55:05Same thing with overall survival.
  • 55:07Less less striking difference
  • 55:08about 25 versus 20 months.
  • 55:10Both are statistically significant.
  • 55:11So bad this is a map should be used
  • 55:14in the Peri operative management with
  • 55:16Folfox 4 correct meeting liver metastases.
  • 55:18What about the EGFR antibody face?
  • 55:20These are highly effective therapies for
  • 55:22patients that are crashed while type.
  • 55:24You think you think we see a
  • 55:26similar a similar story here.
  • 55:28In fact, we're.
  • 55:29In exact opposite, so again,
  • 55:31we have two groups here.
  • 55:34This is a new epoch study,
  • 55:36split into chemotherapy,
  • 55:38perioperatively before and
  • 55:39after surgery with cetuximab,
  • 55:41an without stuck some,
  • 55:42and so without cytoxan map is here in blue.
  • 55:46Progression free survival curve
  • 55:47here so you can see the red group
  • 55:50chemotherapy plastic doing inferior
  • 55:51to the chemotherapy alone group.
  • 55:53Same thing with overall survival.
  • 55:55What's really interesting?
  • 55:56If you look at these curves,
  • 55:58these are these are the Times of surgery,
  • 56:00so this curve have not separated.
  • 56:02They separate later.
  • 56:04An obvious explanation to this
  • 56:05oh would be an awesome app.
  • 56:07Is creating some increase in
  • 56:09perioperative complications?
  • 56:09But that's not the case and the fact
  • 56:12that the changes in progression free
  • 56:14and overall survival happened later
  • 56:16again speaks to. They did that.
  • 56:18It's not an actual increase
  • 56:19in proper complications.
  • 56:21Frankly,
  • 56:21I haven't seen any good explanation
  • 56:23for why this we're seeing these
  • 56:25these these confusing results,
  • 56:27but I think we should proceed with
  • 56:29caution when using our bodies
  • 56:31in the perioperative setting.
  • 56:32I think a lot of my colleagues
  • 56:35have not bought into this,
  • 56:37and I again uncertain on the
  • 56:39rest of the biological rationale
  • 56:41of why we're seeing this,
  • 56:42but it's a very striking
  • 56:44overall survival difference.
  • 56:45It's almost three years.
  • 56:47Median overall survival
  • 56:48difference without the antibody.
  • 56:49So chemotherapy associated
  • 56:50liver diseases will close on
  • 56:52South are drugs can do damage.
  • 56:54That's why the name that our approach is to
  • 56:57limit the number of cycles when feasible,
  • 56:59so Oxaliplatin,
  • 57:00cut static sinusoidal abnormalities.
  • 57:01You can see the dilations here in
  • 57:03light of these sinusoids that directly
  • 57:05from oxide Platt and you can see
  • 57:07nodular regenerative hyperplasia.
  • 57:09This, like lighter pink nodule here.
  • 57:11Crowding out the more healthy
  • 57:13liver tissue here,
  • 57:14which creates noncirrhotic portal
  • 57:15hypertension, both from Oxaliplatin,
  • 57:17where Uniti Concuss.
  • 57:18Seattle hepatitis so fatty fatty
  • 57:19infiltration and inflammation of the liver.
  • 57:21Here very severe case,
  • 57:22and the less of your case.
  • 57:24But frankly there shouldn't be fact.
  • 57:25Neither of these images.
  • 57:27So in in conclusion,
  • 57:29we took the talked about the
  • 57:30importance of molecular results.
  • 57:31Those are things that need to be
  • 57:33sent on every patient so that the
  • 57:35medical oncologist can know what
  • 57:37treatment approach should be done.
  • 57:38The role of sightedness,
  • 57:39our approach to the unrespectable
  • 57:41in the upfront respectable,
  • 57:42and some of the damage our agents can do.
  • 57:45Thank you so much.
  • 57:49Michael, thank you for high speed yet
  • 57:54incredibly comprehensive overview of
  • 57:58rapidly evolving and complicated field and.
  • 58:03David, I want to thank you as well.
  • 58:07Given the time, I don't think we have much
  • 58:11leftover for discussion, I would just.
  • 58:14Close by saying that this is an
  • 58:18incredibly exciting field to work in,
  • 58:21I think the overview that my partners
  • 58:25have given gives the audience a
  • 58:28sense of the enormous complexity yet
  • 58:31opportunity involved for our patients.
  • 58:34And I think for all of us who work together,
  • 58:37it is yet another call.
  • 58:39For an extraordinary level of teamwork,
  • 58:42integration, communication,
  • 58:43all of these clinical services have to be
  • 58:48linked together by meticulous communication
  • 58:50between us is clinicians as well as
  • 58:54our nurses and administrative Staffs.
  • 58:56As we kind of navigate care
  • 59:00throughout a very complex system.
  • 59:03Charlie, anything to add.
  • 59:04Oh, I just want to thank David,
  • 59:07Michael and Kevin for really
  • 59:09just a brilliant discussion.
  • 59:10And thank you for your leadership,
  • 59:12your collaboration and building a
  • 59:14team around a pivotal area of care,
  • 59:17research and thanks everyone for joining
  • 59:19us and think giving us a lot to think
  • 59:23about and really exciting progress.