Panelists discuss how the importance of having pharmacists embedded in oncology clinics has transformed metastatic colorectal cancer care by enabling real-time decision-making and dose adjustments, while highlighting that these are exciting times with multiple new oral treatment options that patients often prefer over infusions, though managing adherence and side effects remains challenging, and emphasizing that current targeted therapy opportunities include rare but actionable NTRK fusions, HER2 amplifications (3% of cases with multiple treatment options), and KRAS G12C mutations (3% of cases), with future promise in pan-RAS inhibitors, expanded immunotherapy beyond MSI-high tumors, and combination therapies, though dermatologic toxicity from targeted agents like RAS inhibitors will likely be the rate-limiting factor requiring better assessment tools and multidisciplinary management including dermatology support.

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