Genitourinary Cancers

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 the latest treatments in genitourinary (GU) cancers.

Adjuvant axitinib did not extend disease-free survival versus placebo for patients at high risk of recurrent renal cell carcinoma after nephrectomy, according to findings from the phase III ATLAS trial.

Data from the phase III POUT clinical trial demonstrated that adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy improves disease-free survival and metastasis-free survival in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma.

Hyung L. Kim, MD, discusses perioperative systemic therapy for patients with kidney cancer.

Amit Gupta, MD, discusses the superiority of robotic cystectomy compared with open cystectomies and its relevance in the current treatment landscape of bladder cancer.

Lauren C. Harshman, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, senior physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses how the PROTECT trial sought to answer the controversial results of the ASSURE and S-TRAC trials.

David M. Nanus, MD, medical oncologist, Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses the role of immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with kidney cancer.

Joaquim Bellmunt, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, director, Bladder Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project in bladder cancer.

Xiao X. Wei, MD, MAS, professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the side effect profile of cabozantinib (Cabometyx) in advanced kidney cancer.

Guru Sonpavde, MD, director of Bladder Cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses immunotherapy plus chemotherapy in bladder cancer.

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

Joaquim Bellmunt, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, director, Bladder Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses trials investigating combinations with immunotherapy for patients with bladder cancer.

David M. Nanus, MD, medical oncologist, Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses adjuvant therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended adding the option of a 4-week dosing schedule to the label for nivolumab for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma and previously treated renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

The FDA has granted enfortumab vedotin a breakthrough therapy designation for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who previously received immune checkpoint therapy.

Leonard G. Gomella, MD, shares his insight on this year's expected advances in the field of prostate cancer.

Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, Genevieve Teuton Progessor of Medicine, Deputy Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cncer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses the importance of next-generation sequencing in prostate cancer.

Mario Sznol, MD, professor of medicine, co-director, Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer, Yale Cancer Center, discusses advancements in immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma.

David M. Nanus, MD, medical oncologist, Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses managing side effects from immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Guru Sonpavde, MD, director of Bladder Cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the next steps for the prognostic model for atezolizumab (Tecentriq) in patients with urothelial carcinoma.

The current standard-of-care therapy for patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma is sunitinib, but many patients relapse or don't have responses to the drug.

Robert B. Den, MD, associate professor of radiation oncology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, discusses bone-targeting agents in prostate cancer.

Elizabeth Plimack, MD, director of Genitourinary Clinical Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses the growth of immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with bladder cancer.

Ani S. Balmanoukian, MD, discusses developments in genitourinary malignancies with promising immunotherapy breakthroughs in renal cell carcinoma and urothelial carcinoma.

The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to erdafitinib for the treatment of metastatic urothelial carcinoma.