Genitourinary Cancers

Rana R. McKay, MD, medical oncologist, assistant professor, Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, discusses combinations in renal cell carcinoma.

Cabozantinib (Cabometyx) was associated with an improvement in overall survival and progression-free survival compared with everolimus (Afinitor) in pretreated patients with advanced RCC with bone metastases at baseline.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses novel immunotherapy combinations for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Andrea B. Apolo, MD, medical oncologist, chief of the bladder cancer section of the Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, National Cancer Institute, discusses managing immune-related toxicities from checkpoint inhibitors in patients with bladder cancer.

The PD-L1 inhibitor avelumab induced an overall response rate of 17% in patients with platinum-refractory metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Molecular subtypes of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma were prognostic for outcomes after metastasectomy, with significant differences seen in overall survival and disease-free survival between groupings.

Martin H. Voss, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses treatment in the neoadjuvant setting for patients with kidney cancer.

Elizabeth Plimack, MD, director of Genitourinary Clinical Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, discusses choosing a checkpoint inhibitor in bladder cancer.

Hans Hammers, MD, PhD, associate professor, Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, discusses the long-term benefits of the CheckMate-214 study in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Rana R. McKay, MD, discusses the evolving management of patients with advanced RCC, specifically the future of combinations of with immunotherapy regimens.

David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the successes with immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma and gave his insight on the future treatment of these patients.

Tian Zhang, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the tolerability of agents used for the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Julie Graff, MD, assistant professor of medicine, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, discusses the treatment of prostate cancer.

The FDA has granted the combination of the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab and the VEGF/FGF inhibitor lenvatinib a breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of patients with advanced and/or metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Matthew Galsky, MD, professor of medicine, hematology, and medical oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses the next steps following progression on immunotherapy for patients with bladder cancer.

Rana R. McKay, MD, medical oncologist, assistant professor, Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, discusses advances in the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Tian Zhang, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, discusses the importance of clinical trials in the adjuvant setting of renal cell carcinoma.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has approved the use of pembrolizumab for the treatment of patients with radically unresectable urothelial carcinoma who progressed after cancer chemotherapy

Guru Sonpavde, MD, director of Bladder Cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the potential for immunotherapy in penile cancer.

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Neeraj Agarwal, MD, associate professor, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, discusses the CheckMate-214 trial for patients with kidney cancer.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses immunotherapy as a standard of care for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).