Genitourinary Cancer

Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy in primary renal cell cancer may be a treatment approach with an acceptable adverse effect profile and with minimal impact on renal function.

Patients with metastatic urothelial cancer treated with frontline maintenance therapy with avelumab following platinum-based chemotherapy in the real-world setting had similar outcomes as observed in the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial.

Overall, the transition from breast to genitourinary cancer has added depth and dimension to my knowledge of cancer care.

A modified dosing schedule may make treatment with ipilimumab plus nivolumab more tolerable for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Olaparib improved survival outcomes in all assessed subgroups of patients with BRCA-altered metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The FDA has approved belzutifan to treat patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who have already undergone PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor and a VEGF tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

Leah Shaw, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-BC; and Jessica Deinert, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, share their clinical pearls in managing treatment-related adverse events in prostate cancer care.

A priority review of nivolumab plus cisplatin-based chemotherapy as a frontline treatment option for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma is underway.

Frontline treatment with enfortumab vedotin/pembrolizumab is associated with the highest healthcare costs for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

The FDA has granted enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab priority review status for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer following data from the phase 3 EV-302/KEYNOTE-A39 trial.

Pembrolizumab, in addition to enzalutamide and androgen deprivation therapy, was not associated with better radiographic progression-free survival outcomes in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Patients with prostate cancer who received 18 months of androgen deprivation therapy were more likely to recover their serum testosterone levels and to recover quicker than those who received 36 months of therapy.

The FDA has expanded the indication for enzalutamide to include patients with high-risk nonmetastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

The median overall survival with niraparib, abiraterone acetate, and prednisone was 30.4 months vs 28.6 months with abiraterone acetate and prednisone alone.

The duration of response was 39.2 months among patients with 1 metastatic site treated in the combination arm vs 29.5 months for patients given sunitinib.

Adjuvant pembrolizumab improved overall survival vs placebo in patients with renal cell carcinoma at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence.

The median radiologic progression-free survival was 12.02 months in the 177Lu-PSMA-617 group vs 5.59 months in the androgen receptor pathway inhibitor change group.

Nivolumab plus gemcitabine-cisplatin improved overall and progression-free survival in unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

For the first time, a new therapeutic regimen outperformed chemotherapy in improving overall survival in frontline urothelial cancer.

Cancer screening tests may not extend life expectancy; however, they still are valuable for public health.

Older patients with kidney cancer experienced “exceptional” disease control with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy—which is noninvasive and occurs in the outpatient setting.

Clinical navigators helped increase the rate of genomic testing referrals among Black patients with prostate cancer—a group that faces significant health disparities in the care system.

Meredith Donahue, APRN-BC, discusses emerging therapies in metastatic prostate cancer.

The FDA has granted belzutifan priority review designation based on data from the phase 3 LITESPARK-005 trial.

The 2-year event-free survival rate among patients with muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma was 75.7%.

Cabozantinib and atezolizumab led to a statistically significant progression-free survival improvement in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and measurable soft tissue disease.

The FDA has granted enzalutamide priority review designation based on data from the phase 3 EMBARK trial.

FoundationOne CDx is a next-generation sequencing–based in vitro diagnostic device developed to detect substitutions, insertion, and deletion alterations using 1 tissue sample.

Patients with nonmetastatic clinically node positive bladder cancer who wish to avoid major surgery may achieve similar clinical outcomes with trimodal therapy.

The phase 3 CheckMate-901 trial met its dual primary end points for progression-free survival and overall survival.