Genitourinary Cancers

March 30, 2020

A sudden surge in the cases of COVID-19 due to pandemic, along with efforts to contain it, has led to multiple challenges that no country has experienced in the last several decades. The global pandemic from COVID-19 poses a unique set of challenges not only for patients with cancer who need their treatment, but also for caregivers, oncologists, and the overall care team.

March 29, 2020

At the Annual Education Summit of the Medical Oncology Association of Southern California, Tanya Dorff, MD, discussed evolving practices in prostate and urothelial cancers as well as highlighted controversies in the treatment landscape such as the role of combination therapy in prostate cancer.

March 27, 2020

Liquid biopsy results that identify DNA damage repair genes in prostate cancer may be a useful tool in clinical-deci­sion making, espe­cially because these genes can elucidate therapeutic vulnera­bilities that could be exploited by current treatments.

March 25, 2020

Eugene B. Cone, MD, discusses the strategies for treating patients with prostate cancer who develop adverse events, such as cardiac events and immune-related events.

March 24, 2020

A 75-Year-Old Man With Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer

March 24, 2020

A significant percentage of younger men with high-risk prostate cancer who display minimal comorbidities continue to receive nondefinitive therapy (NDT), despite research that has demonstrated local therapy is more beneficial in this patient population, according to findings from a study published in JAMA Oncology show. A number of reasons for this have been identified, including insurance status and race/ethnicity.

March 23, 2020

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Kashyap Patel, MD, discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of new precautions in his practice as the number of COVID-19 infected persons rises in the state.

March 23, 2020

The addition of 6 months of oral daily enzalutamide to standard salvage radiation and hormone therapy is safe and may improve prostate cancer remission rates at 2 and 3 years postoperatively among patients with high-risk disease, according to a recent paper in European Urology Oncology.

March 21, 2020

Elderly patients with advanced prostate cancer should be evaluated for preexisting cardiovascular diseases before taking oral androgen signaling inhibitors by a multidisciplinary team, includ­ing a cardiologist, according to a recent retro­spective study. Investigators at Thomas Jeffer­son University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, demonstrated that after receiving abiraterone acetate or enzalutamide, these patients had higher rates of short-term mortality than similar patients without CVDs.

March 21, 2020

Patients harboring IDH1/2 muta­tions may receive benefit by the use of PARP inhibitors, with investigators initi­ating clinical trials in patients across multiple different tumor types to determine the efficacy of this strategy.