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Follow-up from the TIVO-3 trial showed that patients with pretreated relapsed/refractory renal cell carcinoma who received tivozanib were 5 times more likely to experience long-term progression-free survival compared with sorafenib.

Frontline tivozanib was noninferior to other tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma in a real-world setting.

Treatment with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab was associated with a clinical benefit in advanced renal cell carcinoma, regardless of a patient’s biomarker status.

Treatment with cabozantinib (Cabometyx, Cometriq) in the second-line setting generated similar time-to-event end points and response rates in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, regardless of frontline immune-oncology combinations.

Enfortumab vedotin produced promising antitumor activity when used as neoadjuvant treatment in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer who were not eligible for cisplatin.

The addition of olaparib to durvalumab did not result in a significant prolongation in progression-free survival compared with durvalumab alone in patients with previously untreated, platinum-ineligible metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Second-line sacituzumab govitecan plus pembrolizumab generated promising antitumor activity in patients with checkpoint inhibitor–naïve metastatic urothelial cancer.

Updated data support the common use of cabozantinib in this setting without new safety signals in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT and sodium fluoride PET/CT baseline functional imaging parameters and percent change in lesion number observed on follow-up imaging was linked with overall survival and found to be prognostic in patients with metastatic genitourinary cancers.

Niraparib in combination with cabozantinib demonstrated a manageable safety profile, with preliminary efficacy observed in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Avelumab failed to demonstrate an improvement in overall survival at 1 year as frontline treatment in patients with cisplatin-ineligible, PD-L1–positive advanced urothelial cancer, though it did elicit a notable objective response rate.

The frontline maintenance combination of avelumab plus best supportive care continued to show an improvement in overall survival compared with BSC alone in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer who receive first-line chemotherapy.

The combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab elicited comparable antitumor activity compared with placebo plus pembrolizumab as frontline therapy in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma who were ineligible for platinum-based chemotherapy, according to data from LEAP-011.

Darolutamide produced a well-tolerated safety profile in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to pooled data from long-term analyses of 3 trials.

Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, discusses the safety and efficacy of nivolumab plus standard of care in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, shares additional insight from the CheckMate-9X8 trial, and alludes to next steps with further exploring the regimen in specific subsets who appear to derive benefit from this approach.

The utilization of 18F-rhPSMA-7.3 imaging displayed a clinically meaningful correct detection rate.

The androgen receptor inhibitor darolutamide demonstrated continued efficacy and safety in patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC) who have comorbidities or concomitant medications

Thomas A. Abrams, MD, discusses the ongoing phase 1b COSMIC-021 trial examining cabozantinib/atezolizumab, the efficacy and safety demonstrated with the regimen in those with colorectal cancer, and the next steps for research

Continuous enzalutamide plus docetaxel and prednisone elicited progression-free survival improvement vs placebo with docetaxel and prednisone in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had previously progressed on enzalutamide alone

The addition of darolutamide to androgen deprivation therapy and docetaxel generated better overall survival vs placebo with ADT and docetaxel in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

The combination of niraparib and abiraterone acetate and prednisone led to a significant improvement in radiographic progression-free survival vs placebo plus abiraterone in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and homologous recombination repair gene alterations.

Olaparib in combination with abiraterone acetate led to a 34% reduction in the risk of radiographic disease progression or death compared with placebo and abiraterone as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to results of the phase 3 PROpel trial.

Treatment with apalutamide, an androgen receptor inhibitor, was associated with a deep PSA response leading to beneficial outcomes in patient-related end points.

A greater portion of patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer achieved an early and deep prostate-specific antigen reduction from baseline of 90% or more when treated with apalutamide compared with enzalutamide.

The US Senate has confirmed Robert M. Califf, MD, a prominent cardiologist and expert in clinical trials, as the latest FDA commissioner today in a 50-46 vote.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to IO-202, a first-in-class anti-LILRB4 myeloid checkpoint inhibitor, as a potential therapeutic option for patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

The FDA has accepted and granted priority review to a supplemental biologics license application seeking the approval of the CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma in whom frontline therapy has failed.

New research led by Yale Cancer Center revealed White patients had significantly more telemedicine visits compared with Black patients for hematologic cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Androgen recepter positivity serves as an independent predictor of beneficial outcomes in breast cancer.

Debasish Tripathy, MD, provides perspective on some of the key data sets that were presented and published in 2021 in HER2-positive breast cancer.