GENITOURINARY CANCERS

Optimal Use of Bone-Targeted Therapy for mCRPC

mCRPC Treated with Concomitant ADT and Radium-223 Therapy

Based on phase III results from the PROSELICA trial, the FDA has approved the combination of cabazitaxel at a dose of 20 mg/m² every 3 weeks and prednisone for the treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who previously received a docetaxel-containing regimen.

Andrea B. Apolo, MD, principal investigator and the head of the Bladder Cancer Section in the Genitourinary Malignancies Branch at the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Cancer Research, discusses a phase I study of cabozantinib (Cabometyx) plus nivolumab (Opdivo) and cabozantinib plus nivolumab with ipilimumab (Yervoy) in patients with refractory metastatic urothelial carcinoma and other genitourinary tumors.

Adding ramucirumab to docetaxel improved progression-free survival (PFS) over docetaxel alone for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy, results from the international phase III RANGE trial showed.

Pembrolizumab has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have received prior platinum-containing chemotherapy, or who are not eligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy.

Jonathan E. Rosenberg, MD, discusses the muscle-invasive bladder cancer guidelines and their significance for the treatment of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

An analysis of the genomic landscape of patients with prostate cancer shows that tumors separated into 3 clusters that aligned with the luminal A, luminal B, and basal subtypes found in breast cancer tumors, according to a presentation during the 2017 American Urological Association Annual Meeting.

Exelixis has submitted a supplemental New Drug Application to the FDA for the multikinase inhibitor cabozantinib as treatment for previously untreated patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Based on results of a feasibility study, researchers in the United Kingdom have decided to move forward with a full randomized controlled trial comparing partial prostate ablation (PA) with radical prostatectomy (RP) in patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer, according to a presentation at the 2017 American Urological Association Annual Meeting.

Thomas Flaig, MD, has been named chair of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) Panel for Bladder Cancer.