Treatments for Pancreatic and Colorectal Cancers

Guest: J. Randolph Hecht, MD

How have treatments for colorectal and pancreatic cancers advanced in recent years, and are novel treatments reducing the mortality rate of patients with these cancers? Dr. J. Randolph Hecht, director of the GI Oncology Program at the UCLA Health System and clinical professor of medicine in the hematology-oncology division at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, looks at some of the newer pharmacological agents and methods being used to treat these gastrointestinal cancers. Dr. Jay Goldstein hosts.