The OncLive Genitourinary Cancer condition center page is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights across genitourinary (GU) malignancies, including renal cell carcinoma, urothelial carcinoma, and prostate cancer. This section features news articles, interviews in written and video format, and podcasts that focus on the evolving treatment paradigm of GU cancers and emerging research.
May 14th 2024
In case you missed it, below is your guide to the important regulatory approvals made by the FDA in April 2024.
Medical Crossfire®: Expert Exchanges to Maximize Clinical Outcomes for Patients with CRPC Through Evidence-Based Personalized Therapy
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection: Addressing Pediatric and AYA Patient Concerns While Managing Hodgkin Lymphoma
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Live “Hot Seat”: Experts Face Your Hot-Button Questions on Maximizing PARP Inhibitors in Patients With CRPC
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Everything You Need to Know About PARP Inhibitor Combinations in Prostate Cancer Care: Why? For Whom? And When?
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Multidisciplinary Management of TNBC: Immunotherapy, PARP, TROP2, Oh My!
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Advances In™: Targeting PSMA to Advance Diagnosis And Management Of Patients With Prostate Cancer
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Clinical Case Vignette Series: Integrating Recent Data into Practice to Improve Outcomes in Advanced Prostate Cancer
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Community Practice Connections™: The Advent of TROP2-Targeted Treatment Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer
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B-Cell Tumor Board: Rendering Real World Personalized Treatment Plans in CLL/SLL and MCL Through the Lens of Emerging BTKi Evidence
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Community Practice Connections™: Controversies and Conversations About HER2- Expressing Breast Cancer…Advances in Management of HER2-Low to -Positive Disease
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Show Me the Data™: Do We Have Sea Change for Novel Approaches in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer? CDK, PI3K/AKT, ADC, and Next-Gen SERD Strategies Assessed
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates from Chicago in Breast Cancer
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8th Annual School of Nursing Oncology™
August 10, 2024
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates in RCC from Chicago
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Applying New Evidence in Multiple Myeloma Care from Frontline to R/R Disease
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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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Medical Crossfire®: How Does Recent Evidence on PARP Inhibitors and Combinations Inform Treatment Planning for Prostate Cancer Now and In the Future?
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Medical Crossfire®: How Do Clinicians Integrate the Latest Evidence in Treating Ovarian Cancer to Personalize Care?
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How CEACAM5 Expression Can Be Measured and Leveraged in NSCLC Care: Current Developments & Future Therapeutic Opportunities
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Medical Crossfire®: Where Are We in the World of ADCs? From HER2 to CEACAM5, TROP2, HER3, CDH6, B7H3, c-MET and Beyond!
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Community Oncology Connections™: Overcoming Barriers to Testing, Trial Access, and Equitable Care in Cancer
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Translating New Evidence into Treatment Algorithms from Frontline to R/R Multiple Myeloma: How the Experts Think & Treat
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Medical Crossfire: How Has Iron Supplementation Altered Treatment Planning for Patients with Cancer-Related Anemia?
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Dialogues With the Surgeon on Integration of Systemic Therapies in Perioperative Settings for NSCLC: Looking at EGFR, ALK, IO, and Beyond…
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The Next Wave in Biliary Tract Cancers: Leveraging Immunogenicity to Optimize Patient Outcomes in an Evolving Treatment Landscape
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The Evolving Tool Box in Advanced HR+/HER2– Breast Cancer: What You Need to Know About Next-Generation SERDs, PI3K/AKT, ADCs, CDK4/6 and Beyond…
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Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy Advances Into Melanoma
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Coffee Talk™: Navigating the Impact of HER2/3, TROP2, and PARP from Early Stage to Advanced Breast Cancer Care
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EMA Initiates Official Review of Nivolumab in Bladder Cancer
September 20th 2016The European Medicines Agency has validated a type II variation application for use of nivolumab (Opdivo) as a treatment for patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have progressed following platinum-based chemotherapy.
EC Approves Cabozantinib for Renal Cell Carcinoma
September 15th 2016The European Commission has approved cabozantinib for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma after the failure of VEGF-targeted therapy, according to Exelixis and Ipsen, the manufacturers of the multikinase inhibitor.
FDA Panel Votes Against Apaziquone in Bladder Cancer
September 14th 2016The FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 14-0 against approving apaziquone (EOquin; Qapzola) for intravesical instillation immediately following transurethral resection in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Dr. Ball on Eventual Role of Immunotherapy in Patients With RCC
September 14th 2016Mark Ball, MD, chief urology resident, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses the eventual role that immunotherapy will play in the treatment landscape of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), as well as patient selection to receive immunotherapy as a single agent or in combination.
Obesity Paradox in RCC: Improved OS for Patients With High BMI
September 9th 2016Evidence has demonstrated that obesity is a risk factor for clear cell renal cell carcinoma; however, a new report suggests that a high body mass index is a prognostic factor for improved survival in patients with metastatic RCC who have received targeted therapy.
Expert Discusses Evolving Roles of Cabozantinib, Nivolumab in RCC
September 8th 2016Jorge A. Garcia, MD, discusses the final survival data from the phase III METEOR trial, which was the basis for cabozantinib's (Cabometyx's) FDA approval, as well as the role the agent will now play along with nivolumab (Opdivo) in advanced RCC.
Dr. McDermott on Major Findings of Efficacy and Safety of Nivolumab in RCC
September 7th 2016David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the findings of the phase III CheckMate-025 trial of nivolumab (Opdivo) versus everolimus (Afinitor) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Dr. Lee on Nanotechnology Combination Therapy in RCC
August 24th 2016Benjamin R. Lee, MD, chief, Division of Urology, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Department of Surgery, and director of the Genitourinary Cancer and Disease Oriented Strategic Planning Team, University of Arizona Cancer Center, discusses nanotechnology combination therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Second-Line Therapies for mCRPC Complicated by Drug Interactions and Dosing Issues
August 18th 2016Approximately 4 years after the FDA approval of 2 powerful new oral androgen-targeting agents for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, an analysis raised issues complicating treatment with the 2 drugs, as well as what oncologists do not yet know.
Dr. Fishman Discusses Available Agents to Treat Patients With RCC
August 16th 2016Mayer Fishman, MD, PhD, medical oncologist, Chemical Biology and Molecular Medicine Program, Moffitt Cancer Center, professor, Department of Oncologic Sciences and of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, discusses the available agents to treat patients with renal cell carcinoma.
Expert Explores Next Steps With "Game Changer" Atezolizumab in Bladder Cancer
August 11th 2016Gary D. Steinberg, MD, discusses the impact of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) on the treatment landscape of bladder cancer, the resistance to finding effective therapies for the disease, and what potential role immunotherapy may have in the field going forward.
Caring for US Veterans Helped Lead Iraqi Immigrant to Develop Prostate Cancer Advances
August 6th 2016Maha H. Hussain, MB ChB, whose work has helped advance treatment and care of men with prostate cancer, was honored in the Genitourinary Cancer category with a 2015 Giants of Cancer Care® award, a program that the Intellisphere® Oncology Specialty Group launched to recognize leaders in the field.