Genitourinary Cancers

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, director, University of Washington Medicine’s Genitourinary Cancers Program, associate professor, Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses combination strategies in genitourinary cancer.

Bradley McGregor, MD, discusses the impact of combination therapies on the treatment landscape and highly anticipated studies in renal cell carcinoma.

Thai H. Ho, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses the management of immune-related adverse events in the treatment of kidney cancer.

Bradley McGregor, MD, physician, Genitourinary Oncology program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and instructor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses whether patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) need frontline combination therapy.

Combining the PD-L1 inhibitor avelumab with the VEGF inhibitor axitinib significantly improved progression-free survival compared with sunitinib in treatment-naïve patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, according to findings from the phase III JAVELIN Renal 101 study.

Shilpa Gupta, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Hematology/Oncology and Transplantation Division, University of Minnesota, discusses combination immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma.

Robert A. Figlin, MD, director, Division of Hematology/Oncology, professor of biomedical sciences and medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses the future of kidney cancer treatment.

Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD, shares her insight on the current state of immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with genitourinary cancers.

Peter J. Van Veldhuizen, MD, hematologist/oncologist, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses frontline immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with kidney cancer.

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, associate professor, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, discusses the next steps in the kidney cancer paradigm.

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

Mario Sznol, MD, professor of medicine, co-director, Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer, Yale Cancer Center, discusses immunotherapy in non-clear cell renal cancer.

Arlene O. Siefker-Radtke, MD, professor, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses next steps with erdafitinib in patients with bladder cancer.

Matthew Galsky, MD, professor of medicine, hematology, and medical oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses neoadjuvant immunotherapy in bladder cancer.

Peter J. Van Veldhuizen, MD, hematologist/oncologist, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses the impact of the CARMENA trial results in renal cell carcinoma.

Although checkpoint blocking immunotherapy has significantly improved outcomes for patients with advanced and metastatic disease, researchers believe the modality also may be effective in the neoadjuvant setting.

Daniel J. George, MD, professor of medicine, surgery, member, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses an analysis of the S-TRAC study in renal cell carcinoma.

Brock O’Neil, MD, assistant professor, Division of Urology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, discusses the current standard of care in muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Daniel J. George, MD, discusses an analysis of RCC patients in the S-TRAC trial with the highest risk of recurrence, and potential prognostic factors of DFS that emerged from the study.

Arlene O. Siefker-Radtke, MD, discusses the promise of erdafitinib in patients with urothelial carcinoma.

Shilpa Gupta, MD, assistant professor, Hematology Oncology and Transplantation Division, University of Minnesota, discusses genomic characterization of muscle invasive bladder cancer histology to predict therapy response.

Jonathan E. Rosenberg, MD, discusses the promise of enfortumab vedotin in patients with bladder cancer who previously received a checkpoint inhibitor, and reflects on the rapid pace of change in the urothelial cancer landscape.

Mario Sznol, MD, discusses the latest developments with immunotherapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, director, University of Washington Medicine’s Genitourinary Cancers Program, associate professor, Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the IMvigor211 trial in metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Charles G. Drake, MD, PhD, director of Genitourinary Oncology, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and co-director of Columbia’s Cancer Immunotherapy Programs, discusses the role of cytoreductive nephrectomy in the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma.