GENITOURINARY CANCERS

James Mohler, MD, chair, Department of Urology, associate director, Translational Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses sequencing agents in prostate cancer.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, director, Prostate and GU Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center, discusses sequencing agents in prostate cancer.

Oliver Sartor, MD, board professor, cancer research, Tulane University, discusses a phase III trial of custirsen (OGX-011) and its potential for treatment in patients with prostate cancer.

Roberto Pili, MD, professor of oncology, chief, genitourinary section leader, Genitourinary Program, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Center, discusses the possibility of using a HDAC/mTOR inhibitor combination as a treatment option for patients with prostate cancer.

E. David Crawford, MD, professor, Urologic and Radiation Oncology, head, Section of Urologic Oncology, University of Colorado at Denver, discusses diagnosing prostate cancer.

Robert Dreicer, MD, MS, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Department of Solid Tumor Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, comments on current clinical trial endpoints in prostate cancer.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, director, Prostate and GU Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center, discusses PSMA and its role in prostate cancer treatment.

Roberto Pili, MD, professor of oncology, chief, genitourinary section leader, Genitourinary Program, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Center, discusses the efficacy of tasquinimod in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

Oliver Sartor, MD, board professor, cancer research, Tulane University, discusses PSA testing guidelines.

James Mohler, MD, chair, Department of Urology, associate director, Translational Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses how his laboratory is working to improve the efficacy of abiraterone for the treatment of prostate cancer.

E. David Crawford, MD, professor, Urologic and Radiation Oncology, head, Section of Urologic Oncology, University of Colorado at Denver, discusses prostate cancer biopsies.

Robert Dreicer, MD, MS, professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, chairman, Department of Solid Tumor Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, discusses next-generation anti-androgen therapies for patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer

Screening for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) significantly cuts the death rate from prostate cancer, but at the same time, America’s medical community should work harder to avoid the screen’s potential pitfalls.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, director, Prostate and GU Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center, describes imaging approaches in prostate cancer.

Rana R. McKay, MD, a clinical oncology fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses treatment options for biochemical relapse after definitive local therapy for prostate cancer.

A wide-ranging analysis of more than 5500 breast cancer tumors that combined genomic and protein expression testing has identified promising targets to explore for treating patients with poor prognoses, with particularly notable findings involving androgen receptor (AR) expression.

Leonard Gomella, MD, chair, Department of Urology, director, Kimmel Cancer Center Network, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, discusses the future of biomarkers in prostate cancer that might complement or displace PSA.

Tomasz Beer, MD, FACP, professor of medicine, deputy director of the Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, discusses the design and results of the PREVAIL trail

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, assistant professor, genitourinary cancers, City of Hope, discusses sequencing abiraterone and enzalutamide for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

Sophie D. Fosså, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway, comments on the benefit of radiotherapy/antiandrogen combination in men with locally advanced prostate cancer.

Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS, medical director, Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, on the utility of the androgen receptor inhibitor ODM-201 for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

Scott T. Tagawa, MD, assistant professor of medicine, medical director, Genitourinary Oncology Research Program, Weill Cornell Medical College, discusses results from a trial that evaluated tumor-directed PET imaging of bone metastases in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) when using the Zr-89 labeled anti-prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) antibody J591.

A meta-analysis presented during the 10th Annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium found that when used with other therapies for the treatment of mCRPC, prednisone does not raise the risk for severe toxicities, nor does it affect overall survival (OS).

William K. Oh, MD, professor of medicine, hematology and medical oncology, urology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses a biomarker development trial of satraplatin in patients with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer.

Patients with bone metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) who received radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) continued to have a low incidence of myelosuppression and no associated secondary malignancies at a 1.5-year follow-up of the pivotal phase III ALSYMPCA study that was presented at the 2014 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

Matthew D. Galsky, MD, from The Mount Sinai Hospital, discusses an analysis of the distribution and geographic accessibility of prostate cancer clinical trials in the U.S.

Charles Ryan, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), University of California, San Francisco, discusses the utility of abiraterone and enzalutamide for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Improved outcomes continued to be demonstrated with the addition of radiotherapy to oral antiandrogen therapy in men with locally advanced prostate cancer, according to an updated analysis, conducted after 11 years of observation.

Enzalutamide (Xtandi) improves survival by nearly 30% in chemotherapy-naïve men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and delays progression of their disease by more than 80%.

The premature termination of clinical trials in the oncology setting is a problem that continues to vex researchers, and results of a new study that involved more than 7500 adult cancer clinical trials suggest that the concern is justified.