Jason M. Broderick

As frontline therapy, pembrolizumab plus axitinib led to a statistically significant survival benefit over standard-of-care therapy, according to data presented at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting.

A 40% reduction in the risk of death was observed when 177Lu-PSMA-617A was added to standard of care therapy in patients with PSMA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Scott T. Tagawa, MD, considers data for the novel PSMA-targeted radiopharmaceutical 177Lu-PSMA-617.

Patients with germline and/or homozygous tumor DNA damage response alterations among male patients with heavily pretreated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer were most likely to respond to treatment with the PARP inhibitor talazoparib.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle mitigated the genetic risk for lethal prostate cancer in men with high genetic risk.

During a presentation at the 14th Annual New York GU Interdisciplinary Prostate Cancer Congress® and Other Genitourinary Malignancies, Scott T. Tagawa, MD, reviewed important findings related to radium-223 and its use in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Findings from the phase 3 CONDOR trial support the use of the PSMA PET imaging agent 18F-DCFPyL as the FDA prepares to make a decision on a new drug application regarding its use.

For patients with chemotherapy-naïve metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer receiving androgen deprivation therapy, abiraterone acetate and prednisone plus the addition of apalutamide reduced the risk of radiographic progression or death by 30%.

Data for a key study secondary outcome measure showed that 56.1% of patients who achieved a complete response to Jelmyto maintained that response at 12 months.

Researchers identified the prevalence of germline mutations associated with the early-onset renal cell carcinoma, as well as clinicopathologic factors linked to an increased risk of carrying these mutations.

A phase 2 study found that the investigational HIF-2α inhibitor MK-6482 has durable efficacy in patients with Von Hippel-Lindau associated clear cell renal cell carcinoma and non-renal lesions.

“Providers should consider using BLC for surveillance of high-risk NMIBC patients undergoing BCG as it could change clinical management by identifying patients who are BCG unresponsive and eligible for alternative therapy and clinical trials,” said Meera Chappidi, MD.

The efficacy of the novel intravesical gene-mediated therapy nadofaragene firadenovec was sustained across subgroups of patients with high-grade, BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Despite a declining overall incidence of prostate cancer in the United States, a CDC analysis revealed the incidence of metastatic prostate cancer is increasing.

The BCMA-targeting CAR T-cell therapy yielded a response in73% of patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.