Genitourinary Cancers

Daniel J. George, MD, discusses the status of treatment for patients with high-risk stage III RCC, as well as the role of sunitinib (Sutent) and checkpoint inhibitors in the RCC paradigm.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, a medical oncologist at City of Hope, discusses developments made in frontline treatment for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

Paul R. Eber, MD, discusses how the findings from CARMENA impact metastatic renal cell carcinoma treatment and what challenges remain.

Thomas Powles MBBS, MRCP, MD, discusses the changes to the frontline landscape of bladder cancer and where research should focus moving forward.

Paul Eber, MD, urologist, The Conrad Pearson Clinic, discusses the utility of cytoreductive nephrectomy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

Toni Choueiri, MD, director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses next steps for treatment in renal cell carcinoma.

Vivek Venkatramani, MD, and Dipen J. Parekh, MD, discuss the evolution of surgery in bladder cancer.

Newer immunotherapy agents are changing traditional strategies for care, resulting in higher levels of collaboration.

Heather Greene, a nurse practitioner at West Cancer Center, discusses common treatment-related toxicities in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Although he held a longtime fascination with space exploration to the moon and Mars, Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, took a different path and broke new ground in another frontier: genitourinary oncology.

Bradley G. Somer, MD, associate professor of hematology/oncology, head of strategic expansion/development, University of Tennessee West Cancer Center, discusses the potential for immunotherapy combinations in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Asim Amin, MD, PhD, director of immunotherapy, Levine Cancer Institute, discusses the rationale for the pivotal CheckMate-214 trial in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

In contrast to the wide array of available therapies in the metastatic setting of renal cell carcinoma, in patients with localized disease, the results of trials investigating adjuvant systemic therapy after nephrectomy have so far been underwhelming.

Toni Choueiri, MD, director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses frontline trials of immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma.

Daniel J. George, MD, professor of medicine and surgery, member, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the use of adjuvant sunitinib (Sutent) in the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Thomas Powles MBBS, MRCP, MD, professor of Genitourinary Oncology, lead, Solid Tumour Research, Barts Cancer Institute, director, Barts Cancer Centre, discusses the current state of research in bladder cancer.

Arjun V. Balar, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, director, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program, NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, discusses remaining questions with immunotherapy in bladder cancer.

Peter Clark, MD, medical oncologist, Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health, discusses the role of cytoreductive nephrectomy in the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Toni Choueiri, MD, director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses combinations of checkpoint inhibitors and TKIs for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma.

Jonathan E. Rosenberg, MD, medical oncologist, chief, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses challenges in the treatment of patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Toni K. Choueiri, MD, discusses the JAVELIN Renal 101 study and where these data fit into the complex treatment paradigm of renal cell carcinoma.

Robert A. Figlin, MD, director, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Steven Spielberg Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses treatment strategies for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended approval of nivolumab combined with low-dose ipilimumab as a frontline treatment for patients with intermediate- and poor-risk advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Ronald de Wit, MD, PhD, group leader, Experimental Systematic Therapy of Urogenital Cancers program, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands, discusses findings with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses an analysis of the CheckMate-214 study in advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).