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The Kidney Cancer Treatment guidelines, housed within the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, have been revised, granting tivozanib Category 1 status as a subsequent therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma who have received at least 2 prior lines of treatment.
The FDA has accepted for review a biologics license application for the IL-15 superagonist N-803 for the treatment of patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ.
The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab failed to elicit a statistically significant improvement in disease-free survival compared with placebo as adjuvant treatment in patients with localized renal cell carcinoma who had undergone a full or partial removal of the kidney and were at moderate or high risk of relapse, failing to meet the primary end point of part A of the phase 3 CheckMate-914 trial.
Among men in the United States, incidence-based mortality is growing for penile cancer even though incidence remained consistent from 2000 to 2018.
Tian 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.
