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- The anti-PD-L1 avelumab in urothelial carcinoma—A discussion with investigator Dr Andrea Apolo. The JAVELIN Solid Tumor phase 1, open-label, dose-escalation trial investigated avelumab, a human monoclonal anti-PD-L1 antibody (anti-PD-L1), in patients with selected tumor indications (eg, NSCLC, breast cancer, colorectal cancer). Pooled analysis of two JAVELIN cohorts that included patients with adv...
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- Beyond Endpoints: An interview with Dr Srikala Sridhar, study chair of the BL12 trial Investigator-initiated trials (IITs) often tackle important questions that are not addressed elsewhere. [transcript] Compared with a pharmaceutical company–managed trials, benefits of IITs include generating data in a real-world setting and resolving issues that confound physicians in daily practice. A recent ope...
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- Black individuals with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) experience 21% lower odds of guideline-based treatment (GBT). Differences in treatment account for 35% of observed Black-White differences in survival. Samuel Washington III, MD, MAS joins Ashish Kamat, MD, MBBS, to highlight this data published in Cancer Medicine. Low GBT levels demonstrated an "under-allocation" of GBT to those who nee...
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- Michiel Van der Heijden MD, PhD, joins Ashish Kamat, MD, MBBS discussing the evolution of the guidelines for advanced urothelial cancer. Michiel Van der Heijden provides a concise summary of the European Association of Urology Guidelines and the ESMO guidelines, contrasting statements between the two for patients in first-line treatment who are ineligible to receive cisplatin-based chemotherapy in...
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- Guru Sonpavde joins Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH in a discussion on the treatment landscape of muscle-invasive bladder cancer and several trials that could lead to changes in treatment patterns across the bladder cancer disease spectrum. They review data recently presented at the 2020 European Society for Medical Oncology Virtual Congress, (ESMO) including sacituzumab govitecan in Cohort 3 of the TROPH...
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- The identification of predictive biomarkers for immunotherapy response is an area of intense research interest. In this conversation with Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH, Srikala Sridhar MD, MSc, FRCPC highlights her presentation from the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2020 virtual meeting. At this meeting, Dr. Sridhar presented an assessment of potential biomarkers for response within the J...
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- Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, joins Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH highlighting promising data from a different antibody-drug conjugate called sacituzumab govitecan (IMMU-132). There are a number of ongoing studies where sacituzumab govitecan which is being studied in advanced bladder cancer. Enfortumab vedotin targets Nectin-4, while sacituzumab govitecan is targeting Trop-2. Dr. Grivas highlights the final r...
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- In this clinical conversation with Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH, and Joshua Meeks, MD, PhD we hear their clinical perspective combination therapies when treating metastatic urothelial carcinoma. They discuss several studies with recent data from the European Society for Medical Oncology Virtual Congress, (ESMO) 2020 including the KEYNOTE-361 the DANUBE trial, and the IMvigor130 data presented at earlie...
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- Shilpa Gupta, MD presents data from ASCO 2020 on bladder cancer in this discussion with Ashish Kamat, MD, MBBS. Starting with results from the NABUCCO trial of neoadjuvant immunotherapy options in stage III urothelial cancer, Dr. Gupta highlights the results from the trial showing complete responses in 46% of patients. She surveys other trials presented at the 2020 ASCO meeting, including KEYNOTE-...
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- Ashish Kamat, MD, MBBS, welcomes Andrea Apolo, MD, the chief of the Bladder Cancer Section at the National Cancer Institute, to review new arrivals in the therapeutic options for the management of metastatic bladder cancer. Dr. Apolo summarizes which checkpoint inhibitors were approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for second-line treatment of metastatic urothelial carcinoma as wel...
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