Genitourinary Cancer

With delays in biomarker testing and treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, continued education is needed to address these gaps.

Patients with HRR-deficient metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer saw a 14-month boost in OS and a 38% lower risk of death with talazoparib plus enzalutamide.

In a phase 1 trial, all 9 patients with renal cell carcinoma treated with a neoantigen-targeting personalized cancer vaccine showed no recurrence at data cutoff.

Frontline treatment with belzutifan and cabozantinib resulted in durable responses and a manageable safety profile in patients with previously untreated advanced ccRCC.

Sasanlimab plus BCG improved outcomes in high-risk, BCG-naive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

The FDA accepted a supplemental new drug application to darolutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Oncology nurses can utilize risk assessment to predict patients at increased risk for cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury.

Follow-up with cholesterol control and audiological assessments is suggested for cisplatin-treated patients with cancer.

Enzalutamide with and without leuprolide improves rates of undetectable PSA levels compared with leuprolide alone in castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

Patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer treated with enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab experienced a reduction in the risk for disease progression or death vs chemotherapy.

Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy in primary renal cell cancer may be a treatment approach with an acceptable adverse effect profile and with minimal impact on renal function.

Patients with metastatic urothelial cancer treated with frontline maintenance therapy with avelumab following platinum-based chemotherapy in the real-world setting had similar outcomes as observed in the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial.

Overall, the transition from breast to genitourinary cancer has added depth and dimension to my knowledge of cancer care.

A modified dosing schedule may make treatment with ipilimumab plus nivolumab more tolerable for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Olaparib improved survival outcomes in all assessed subgroups of patients with BRCA-altered metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The FDA has approved belzutifan to treat patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who have already undergone PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor and a VEGF tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

Leah Shaw, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-BC; and Jessica Deinert, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, share their clinical pearls in managing treatment-related adverse events in prostate cancer care.

A priority review of nivolumab plus cisplatin-based chemotherapy as a frontline treatment option for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma is underway.

Frontline treatment with enfortumab vedotin/pembrolizumab is associated with the highest healthcare costs for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

The FDA has granted enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab priority review status for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer following data from the phase 3 EV-302/KEYNOTE-A39 trial.

Pembrolizumab, in addition to enzalutamide and androgen deprivation therapy, was not associated with better radiographic progression-free survival outcomes in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Patients with prostate cancer who received 18 months of androgen deprivation therapy were more likely to recover their serum testosterone levels and to recover quicker than those who received 36 months of therapy.

The FDA has expanded the indication for enzalutamide to include patients with high-risk nonmetastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

The median overall survival with niraparib, abiraterone acetate, and prednisone was 30.4 months vs 28.6 months with abiraterone acetate and prednisone alone.

The duration of response was 39.2 months among patients with 1 metastatic site treated in the combination arm vs 29.5 months for patients given sunitinib.

Adjuvant pembrolizumab improved overall survival vs placebo in patients with renal cell carcinoma at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence.

The median radiologic progression-free survival was 12.02 months in the 177Lu-PSMA-617 group vs 5.59 months in the androgen receptor pathway inhibitor change group.

Nivolumab plus gemcitabine-cisplatin improved overall and progression-free survival in unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

For the first time, a new therapeutic regimen outperformed chemotherapy in improving overall survival in frontline urothelial cancer.

Cancer screening tests may not extend life expectancy; however, they still are valuable for public health.