ASCO 2023 Meeting Reporter: Updates in GU Cancers

The combination of pembrolizumab plus axitinib continued to improve overall survival, progression-free survival, and overall response rate over sunitinib monotherapy in patients with treatment-naïve clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

The addition of atezolizumab to cabozantinib did not improve progression-free survival or overall survival vs cabozantinib alone in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who previously received treatment with an immune checkpoint inhibitor, missing the primary end points of the phase 3 CONTACT-03 trial.

The combination of enfortumab vedotin-ejfv and pembrolizumab generated rapid and durable responses and demonstrated a manageable safety profile in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who were ineligible for cisplatin.

Erdafitinib reduced the risk of death by 36% vs investigator’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with FGFR2/3-altered metastatic urothelial cancer who were previously treated with anti–PD-1 therapy, according to findings from the phase 3 THOR trial.

The combination of talazoparib and enzalutamide resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in radiographic progression-free survival when used as a first-line therapy for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer harboring homologous recombination repair gene alterations.

Radium-223 was safe and did not preclude patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer from receiving subsequent life-prolonging therapies, including chemotherapy.