The OncLive Urology condition center page is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights on urologic cancers, including prostate cancer, bladder cancer, testicular cancer, penile cancer, and renal cell carcinoma. This page features news articles, interviews in written and video format, and podcasts that focus on unmet needs, treatment advances, and ongoing research in brain cancer.
April 22nd 2024
The FDA has approved nogapendekin alfa inbakicept-pmln plus BCG for BCG-unresponsive non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer with carcinoma in situ with or without papillary tumors.
Equalizing Inequities™ in Multiple Myeloma Care: Shining a Light on Current Barriers and Opportunities for Improved Outcomes
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Medical Crossfire®: Expert Exchanges to Maximize Clinical Outcomes for Patients with CRPC Through Evidence-Based Personalized Therapy
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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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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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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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Community Practice Connections™: Controversies and Conversations About HER2- Expressing Breast Cancer…Advances in Management of HER2-Low to -Positive Disease
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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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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates from Chicago in Breast Cancer
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates in RCC from Chicago
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Medical Crossfire®: How Do Clinicians Integrate the Latest Evidence in Treating Ovarian Cancer to Personalize Care?
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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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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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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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ADCs and TKIs Plus Immunotherapy Signal the Future of Urothelial Carcinoma and RCC
July 12th 2022Benjamin Garmezy, MD, discussed the positive trajectory of antibody-drug conjugates and immunotherapy in urothelial carcinoma, highlighting the importance of considering individual patient eligibility for treatments like first-line chemotherapy.
FDA Grants Fast Track Designation to Belzupacap Sarotalocan for Non–Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
July 7th 2022The FDA has granted a fast track designation to belzupacap sarotalocan for the treatment of patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer, representing the first virus-like drug conjugate candidate therapy from Aura Biosciences, Inc., the drug developer.
Successful Treatment Options Expand to Earlier Lines in RCC and Urothelial Cancer
June 23rd 2022Tian Zhang, MD, discusses the benefits of multidisciplinary collaboration, how to select the best agents for each patient, and how treatments such as radiation in RCC and bladder-sparing chemoradiation in urothelial cancer fit into the overall treatment paradigms for these diseases.
Dr. Packiam on Safety of Cabazitaxel/Gemcitabine Plus Pembrolizumab in Urothelial Carcinoma
June 15th 2022Vignesh Packiam, MD, discusses the adverse effects associated with cabazitaxel and gemcitabine with pembrolizumab in patients who are unresponsive to docetaxel with non-muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma.
Atezolizumab Plus Cabozantinib Elicits Clinical Activity in Advanced Urothelial Cancer
June 4th 2022Cabozantinib plus atezolizumab demonstrated promising clinical activity and a suitable safety profile as first-line therapy in patients with cisplatin- eligible and -ineligible, inoperable locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer and as second- or later-line therapy in those who received a prior immune checkpoint inhibitor, according to findings from the phase 1b COSMIC-021 trial.
Single-Agent Cabozantinib Stalls as Maintenance Therapy in Advanced Urothelial Cancer
June 4th 2022Results of the ATLANTIS study do not support further investigation of cabozantinib alone as a maintenance therapy after platinum-based chemotherapy in unselected patients with advanced urothelial cancer.
Neoadjuvant Enfortumab Vedotin May Be an Option for Cisplatin-Ineligible MIBC
Neoadjuvant administration of the antibody drug conjugate enfortumab vedotin-ejfv represents a potential future treatment option for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin-based chemotherapy.
FDA Approval Sought for N-803 Plus BCG in BCG-Unresponsive NMIBC Carcinoma in Situ
A biologics license application seeking the approval of N-803 in combination with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin in patients with BCG-unresponsive, non–muscle invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ with or without Ta or T1 disease has been submitted to the FDA.
Sacituzumab Govitecan Under Further Exploration in Metastatic Urothelial Cancer
Sacituzumab govitecan will be further evaluated in patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic urothelial cancer that has progressed after prior platinum or checkpoint inhibitor therapy, as a part of the phase 3 TROPiCS-04 trial.
A Widening Scope of Treatment Options Advances Care in Bladder Cancer and RCC
May 18th 2022Mark T. Fleming, MD, reviews the use of first-line checkpoint inhibitors in bladder cancer, the efficacy of enfortumab vedotin-ejfv in urothelial cancer, and the clinical benefits of using different mechanisms of action to treat renal cell carcinoma.
Toripalimab Produces Promising Clinical Activity in Metastatic Urothelial Cancer
The recombinant humanized anti–PD-1 monoclonal antibody toripalimab elicited an encouraging objective response rate with an acceptable toxicity profile in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer who were refractory to frontline chemotherapy.
Immunotherapy Plus Nadofaragene Firadenovec Could Display Synergistic Activity in NMIBC
May 17th 2022Nadofaragene firadenovec combined with immune checkpoint inhibitors such as pembrolizumab may play a synergistic role in the treatment of patients with Bacillus Calmette–Guérin-unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Neoadjuvant Tislelizumab/Nab-Paclitaxel Combo Produces Early Activity in MIBC
May 16th 2022The combination of neoadjuvant tislelizumab and nab-paclitaxel elicited a high rate of pathologic complete response in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to preliminary findings from the phase 2 TRUCE-01 trial.
The combination of nivolumab plus ipilimumab was not found to significantly improve overall survival over standard-of-care chemotherapy when used in the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma with a PD-L1 expression of 1% or higher.