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Alessandra Strangio
GOLFIG Chemo-Immunotherapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients. A Critical Review on a Long-Lasting Follow-Up
Background: GOLFIG is a chemo-immunotherapy regimen established in preclinical models that combines gemcitabine + FOLFOX (fluoropyrimidine backbone coupled to oxaliplatin) poly-chemotherapy with low-dose s. c. recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). Promising antitumor effects in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients were obtained in previous phase II and III trials. Here we report the results of 15 years of follow-up. Methods: This is a multi-institutional retrospective analysis including 179 mCRC patients receiving GOLFIG regimen between June 2002 and June 2018. Sixty-two of them received the treatment as frontline (enrolled …
Is ovarian cancer a targetable disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis and genomic data investigation
// Nicoletta Staropoli 1, * , Domenico Ciliberto 1, * , Silvia Chiellino 1 , Francesca Caglioti 1 , Teresa Del Giudice 1 , Simona Gualtieri 1 , Angela Salvino 1 , Alessandra Strangio 1 , Cirino Botta 1 , Sandro Pignata 2 , Pierfrancesco Tassone 1, * , Pierosandro Tagliaferri 1, * 1 Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy 2 Department of Gynecologic and Urologic Oncology, Fondazione Pascale, National Cancer Institute of Naples, Naples, Italy * These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Pierosandro Tagliaferri, email: tagliaferri@unicz.it Keywords: ovarian cancer, targeted therapy, systemic chemotherapy, systemat…