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Adjuvant abemaciclib with endocrine therapy led to a tolerable safety profile in patients with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, high-risk, early breast cancer,

Treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan resulted in lower exposure-adjusted incidence rates per patient-year of treatment-emergent adverse effects compared with treatment of physician’s choice in patients with HER2-low unresectable and/or metastatic breast cancer, according to safety analysis from the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast04 trial.

Elacestrant maintained the quality of life for patients with metastatic breast cancer for at least 6 treatment cycles, according to patient reported outcomes.

Sohail Dhanji, MD, discusses the effect of preoperative hypertension on survival outcomes in patients undergoing nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma, and the importance of hypertension control in this population.

Eric A. Singer, MD, discusses the use of systemic pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Findings from the phase 3 ZIRCON trial showed that imaging with 89Zr-DFO-girentuximab could improve the identification and risk stratification of patients with renal tumors.

Apalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy with or without abiraterone acetate and prednisone improved prostate-specific antigen progression-free survival in patients with biochemically relapsed prostate cancer, according to long-term follow-up data from the phase 3 PRESTO trial.

Sia Daneshmand MD, discusses preliminary results from the phase 2 SunRISe-1 trial (NCT04640623) in patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin.

Fred Saad, MD, FRCS, discusses prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response and time to PSA progression with the combination of abiraterone acetate and olaparib in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Treatment with pembrolizumab monotherapy resulted in stable long-term disease-free survival rates in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Treatment with TAR-200 produced complete responses and was well tolerated in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive, high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to preliminary data from the phase 2b SunRISe-1 trial.

Nivolumab following radical surgery continued to display a benefit in disease-free survival in patients with muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma and muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Treatment with sintilimab in combination with axitinib resulted in tumor shrinkage with tolerable adverse effects in patients with advanced fumarate hydratase–deficient renal cell carcinoma.

Specific comorbidities were linked with complications following partial nephrectomy, compared with radical nephrectomy, in patients with T1b to T2 renal cell carcinoma.

Hypertension was found to be an independent risk factor for worse survival outcomes in patients with upper tract urothelial cancer undergoing radical nephroureterectomy.

A high body mass index was linked with improved overall survival in patients with renal cell carcinoma undergoing radical nephrectomy.

Benjamin H. Lowentritt, MD, FACS, discusses prostate-specific antigen response and time to castration resistance in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer started on apalutamide, enzalutamide, or abiraterone acetate.

Roger Li, MD, discusses phase 2 data with the combination of CG0070 and pembrolizumab in patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin.

Treatment with the androgen receptor inhibitor enzalutamide plus leuprolide led to a significant reduction in the risk of metastasis or death compared with placebo plus leuprolide in patients with nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer with high-risk biochemical recurrence.

Patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer treated with the androgen receptor–signaling inhibitor apalutamide achieved prostate-specific antigen responses that trended higher and rates of progression to castration resistance that trended lower than those receiving enzalutamide or abiraterone acetate/

A post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 ARASENS trial demonstrated that the addition of darolutamide to androgen deprivation therapy and docetaxel produced deep and durable prostate-specific antigen responses in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

A subgroup analysis of the phase 3 ARASENS trial showed that darolutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy elicited an overall survival benefit in North American patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Cretostimogene grenadenorepvec in combination with pembrolizumab produced high complete response rates with a tolerable safety profile in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Treatment with darolutamide was associated with lower rates of discontinuation and progression to metastatic disease compared with enzalutamide and apalutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

First-line avelumab maintenance therapy prolonged survival in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma, regardless of response to first-line chemotherapy, according to findings from an exploratory subgroup analysis of the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial.

The use of 68Ga-FAP-2286 PET imaging may improve treatment selection and response assessment in patients with bladder cancer, according to findings from a pilot study evaluating the diagnostic performance of this imaging technology.

Michael Basin, MD, discusses how the pharmacological inhibition of the molecular chaperone Hsp70 overcomes belzutifan resistance in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Andrew Katims, MD, MPH, discusses the utility of a circulating tumor DNA assay (MSK-ACCESS) in patients with node-positive muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

The addition of olaparib to abiraterone acetate resulted in numerically higher prostate-specific antigen response rates and prolonged time to PSA progression vs abiraterone alone when used in the frontline treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Darolutamide given in an extended duration was linked with long-term clinical benefit and safety in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.