Genitourinary Cancers

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion for the combination of cabozantinib plus nivolumab for use as a frontline treatment in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

February 24, 2021—The off-the-shelf immune primer ilixadencel in combination with sunitinib showcased an encouraging, clinically meaningful survival benefit when used in the first-line treatment of newly diagnosed patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

February 23, 2021 - The first patient in a first-in-human phase 1 study has been dosed with DS-6000, a novel CDH6-directed antibody-drug conjugate.

Jason Zhu, MD, discusses several approaches under exploration in the treatment of patients with previously treated, locally advanced, or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

ADP-A2M4CD8, a novel T-cell therapy, is being investigated in a range of tumor types that express MAGEA4, an antigen expressed in solid tumors that investigators say represents a promising target for cellular immunotherapy.

In our exclusive interview, Dr. Nichols discusses von Hippel-Lindau disease in great detail, how she currently approaches treatment with these patients, and the importance of routine surveillance in this population.

Claud N. Grigg, MD, highlights different frontline combination regimens that are improving outcomes for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

A recent wave of drug approvals for treating prostate cancer in earlier disease states, coupled with genomic advances, may help pave the way for a shift toward handling the malignancy as a chronic condition.

AstraZeneca has voluntarily withdrawn durvalumab from the US market for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer.

February 19, 2021 - The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has issued guidelines for the management of children with a rare type of kidney cancer referred to as Wilms Tumor, or nephroblastoma.

Patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma have a new frontline treatment alternative following FDA approval of the combination of nivolumab plus cabozantinib combination.

February 18, 2021 - Two supplemental biologics license applications have been submitted to the FDA for enfortumab vedotin-ejfv to convert the agent’s accelerated approval into a regular one and to expand the current label to include patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who had received prior treatment with a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor and are not eligible for cisplatin.

Kim E. Nichols, MD, discusses the prognosis of patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease.

February 17, 2021 - The FDA has accepted and granted a priority review designation to the biologics license application for Vicineum for use in patients with high-risk Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Eric Klein, MD, discusses safety data with VERU-111 from a phase 2 trial that enrolled patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that was presented during the 2021 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

VHL disease is defined as a rare, inherited disorder that causes tumors and cysts to grow in specific areas of the body, including the brain, spinal cord, eyes, inner ear, adrenal glands, pancreas, kidney, and reproductive tract.

During a recent OncLive Peer Exchange®, a panel of experts in kidney cancer from the United States and France convened to discuss several important immunotherapy studies presented during the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020, as well as several others that are under way and expected to report out over the next few years.

February 13, 2021 - Cabozantinib resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful prolongation of progression-free survival compared with sunitinib in patients with metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma.

February 13, 2021 - Lenvatinib in combination with pembrolizumab resulted in improved overall survival, progression-free survival, and objective response rate over sunitinib in the frontline treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

February 13, 2021 - Belzutifan used in combination with cabozantinib shrank tumors for 88% of patients and the disease control rate was 90% for patients with previously treated advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

February 13, 2021 - Certain molecular signatures at baseline were found to be independently linked with long-term response to apalutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

February 13, 2021 - Bacillus calmette-guérin plus N-803 demonstrated promising responses with a tolerable safety profile when used in patients with BCG-unresponsive, non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ

February 13, 2021 - Reductions in prostate-specific antigen screening are likely responsible for the recent increase in metastatic prostate cancer cases in the United States.

February 13, 2021 - 18F-DCFPyL, an investigational prostate-specific membrane antigen PET imaging agent, was found to detect and localize metastatic lesions with a high correct localization rate and positive predictive value.

Patrick Pilie, MD, discusses the impact of adiposity on response to androgen signaling inhibition in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Tanya Dorff, MD, discusses the effects of bright white light therapy on obese frailty in older men with prostate cancer.

February 13, 2021 - Enfortumab vedotin was found to have superior efficacy over chemotherapy when used in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma who had received prior platinum-based chemotherapy and PD-1/L1 inhibition.

February 13, 2021 - Treatment with apalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy reduced the risk of death by 35% versus ADT alone in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

February 13, 2021 - Nivolumab following surgery extended disease-free survival compared with placebo for patients with muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma.

February 12, 2021 - Enfortumab vedotin elicited the highest response rates observed for any regimen examined in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who received prior PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors.