EMUC Congress

Patients with high-risk renal cell carcinoma who harbor early systemic dissemination with very poor survival prognosis may derive some benefit from adjuvant therapy.

Maria De Santis, MD, discusses the findings of KEYNOTE-045 and the future of immunotherapy in the treatment landscape of bladder cancer.

Umberto Capitanio, MD, FEBU, department of Urology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, discusses adjuvant therapy for patients with high-risk kidney cancer without metastases.

Thomas Powles, MD, Barts Cancer Institute, discusses the impact of immunotherapy on the treatment landscape of kidney cancer.

Andrea Necchi, MD, discusses the evolution of bladder cancer therapies, the challenge with the currently available agents, and the next steps and clinical trials being conducted in the field.

Four molecular subtypes of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma were prognostic for outcomes after metastasectomy, with striking differences seen in overall survival and disease-free survival between each of the groups.

Kerstin Junker, MD, associate professor, Department of Urology, Universit

Malcom Mason, MD, Cancer Research Wales Professor of Clinical Oncology at Cardiff University, discusses the significance of the PROTECT study in prostate cancer during the 2017 EMUC Congress.

Log LDH was the strongest predictor for overall survival with radium-223 for men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

An extension in overall survival seen with the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab has completely changed the standard of care for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Alessandro Volpe, MD, University of Eastern Piedmont Hospital, Maggiore Della Carita Hospital, Novara, Italy, discusses the management of locally advanced kidney cancer.

A wealth of new clinical trial data for immune checkpoint inhibitors has recently been reported for the treatment of patients with metastatic muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma.

The addition of incomplete metastasectomy to systemic therapy improved median overall survival by 3 months in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Use of the novel prostate imaging reporting and data system enhanced the ability to determine prostate cancer stage versus standard multiparametric MRI alone, offering advantages for deciding the extent of resection needed during an endoscopic radical prostatectomy.

Andrea Necchi, MD, a medical oncologist at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, discusses the impact of PD-1 inhibition in bladder cancer as well as the promise with combination strategies.