Genitourinary Cancer

Men with asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who are being treated with radium-223 (Xofigo) plus enzalutamide (Xtandi) can reduce their risk of fractures with the use of bone-protecting agents.

Public health efforts must address new methods of cancer screening, an expert says.

The FDA has approved piflufolastat F 18 injection, a prostate-specific membrane antigen–targeted positron emission tomography imaging agent to identify suspected metastasis or recurrence of prostate cancer.

There is an association between increased prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening and improved outcomes in younger African American patients.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough device designation to the Avenda Health Focal Therapy System, a male “lumpectomy” product under development to treat patients with prostate cancer in office while preserving quality of life.

Studies found that misinformation and bias is prevalent in YouTube videos about prostate and bladder cancer.

The novel oral TKI masitinib in combination with docetaxel and prednisone resulted in improved progression-free survival compared with docetaxel plus prednisone in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, meeting the predefined primary end point of the phase 2b/3 AB12003 trial.

The FDA has granted a priority review designation to a supplemental biologics license application for nivolumab for use as an adjuvant treatment in patients with surgically resected, high-risk, muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma.

The FDA granted an accelerated approval to sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy) for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer (mUC) who previously had a platinum-containing chemotherapy and a PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor.

Tanya Dorff, MD, discusses how the FDA approvals of olaparib and rucaparib have paved the way for additional research with PARP inhibitors in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has updated its Clinical Practice Guidelines to include tivozanib as a recommended regimen for subsequent therapy in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Although the combination of atezolizumab and bevacizumab has become the standard frontline treatment for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, whether immunotherapy could play a role in earlier lines of treatment remains the subject of ongoing research.

PARP inhibitors and novel combinations targeting the androgen receptor will help define the future treatment paradigm for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The FDA has granted priority review to the new drug application for the HIF-2α inhibitor belzutifan for the potential treatment of patients with von Hippel-Lindau–associated renal cell carcinoma that does not require immediate surgery.

An nurse practitioner discusses how she supports multiple providers in a large academic practice.

While the majority of patients on androgen receptor therapy experienced adverse events, more than a third did not have them resolved.

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.

Patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma with higher tumor mutational burden and who experienced immune-related adverse events tended to have higher response rates to immune checkpoint inhibitor.

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

Sapanisertib failed to show significant activity and a favorable toxicity profile in patients with refractory metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) regardless of mTOR or PTEN status.

A shorter course of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has been shown to have encouraging efficacy with favorable toxicity when used in patients with high-risk prostate cancer in a multi-institutional, international setting, according to findings from a study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

The FDA approved cabozantinib (Cabometyx) plus nivolumab (Opdivo) for the frontline treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Findings of an epidemiological study show that regular aspirin use could boost survival in older patients with breast and bladder cancers, but more research is still needed.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to padeliporfin Immune Photo Activated Cancer Therapy (ImPACT) for use in the treatment of patients with low-grade and unifocal upper-tract urothelial cancer (UTUC), according to an announcement from Steba Biotech.

The FDA has approved a supplemental new drug application to add overall survival (OS) and other secondary end point data from the phase 3 ARAMIS trial (NCT02200614) to the prescribing information for darolutamide (Nubeqa) for the treatment of patients with nonmetastatic prostate cancer (nmCRPC).

The FDA has approved the oral gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist relugolix (Orgovyx) as a treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer.

The FDA approved Gallium 68 PSMA-11 (Ga 68 PSMA-11), a drug for PET imaging of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positive levels in men with suspected prostate cancer metastasis, who may be curable by surgery or radiation therapy.

The FDA has approved the FoundationOne Liquid CDx for use as a companion diagnostic with olaparib (Lynparza), which is indicated for select patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline or somatic homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene–mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

The FDA has lifted the clinical hold placed on the phase 1 PSMA-101-001 study (NCT04249947) of the CAR T-cell therapy P-PSMA-101 in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.