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- In this UroToday discussion between Charles Ryan and Mark Markowski, they focus on Dr Markowski’s recent study, entitled COMAT-CRPC. The COMBAT-CRPC study is a study with bipolar androgen therapy and nivolumab, which was conducted through the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium. Dr. Markowski begins by discussing the criteria for patient eligibility, which was quite broad, which was to be a...
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- In this discussion, Alicia Morgans and Terence Friedlander discuss updates from the EV-103 study. The EV-103 study is a phase one/two clinical trial that looked at the combination of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab in, previously treated, patients with cisplatin-ineligible, metastatic urothelial cancer. Historically, cisplatin-ineligible metastatic urothelial cancer patients have had a very p...
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- In this informative presentation from Andrea Necchi, MD, he presents information related to his goal of finding bladder-sparing treatment options for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). Dr. Necchi begins his presentation with a discussion on recent immunotherapy studies for MIBC, the Balar, and IMMUNOPRESERVE studies. He presents evidence that both of these trials have displayed a promising amo...
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- In this conversation, Rana McKay and Andrea Apolo highlight several studies presented during the ASCO 2021 Annual Meeting on combination therapeutic options for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Dr. Apolo expands on several studies she highlighted in her presentation and where these treatment options fit into the treatment landscape of advanced RCC potentially enhancing the immune effect of imm...
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- In an educational session at the 2021 ASCO annual meeting, Elisabeth Heath, MD, FACP, discussed the variability of treatment options offered to patients with prostate cancer based on patients’ race and geographic location. In this conversation between Charles Ryan, MD, and Dr. Heath, the topic of clinical trial inclusion biases is brought to the forefront. The blindly accepted idea that Black men...
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- In an abstract review session at the 2021 ASCO annual meeting, Lisa Horvath, PhD, MBBS, FRACP, reviewed 3 abstracts: PEACE-1, the SWOG S1216 trial, and the PEACE-III trial. She expanded her conversation about these three abstracts in a discussion with Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH. In the primary conversation about the PEACE-1 trial, Dr. Horvath discussed the main interest, in this phase III trial, to b...
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- The SWOG S1216 is a Phase III Randomized Trial Comparing Androgen Deprivation Therapy + TAK-700 with Androgen Deprivation Therapy + Bicalutamide in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Hormone Sensitive Prostate Cancer (mHSPC). Tak is an oral selective nonsteroidal 17, 20-lyase inhibitor that blocks the synthesis of gonadal and adrenal androgens and in this trial the clinical benefit of Tak wi...
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- In this conversation with Alicia Morgans, Silke Gillessen highlights the bone health analysis evaluating the combination of enzalutamide and radium or enzalutamide alone might affect bone health and fracture rate within patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. At the 2021 ASCO meeting, Dr. Gillessen presented an updated safety analysis from the EORTC 1333 / PEACE III trial of...
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- The Decipher® Genomic Classifier has been shown to independently prognosticate outcomes in prostate cancer. At the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Dr. Alan Dal Pra presented an analysis validating the Decipher genomic classifier within the SAKK 09/10 trial. Dr. Alicia Morgans welcomes Dr. Dal Pra to discuss the SAKK 09/10 trial and to share his insights into this...
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- The HERO study was a randomized, open-label, parallel-group study evaluating relugolix in men with advanced prostate cancer. Overall, 934 men with advanced prostate cancer underwent 2:1 randomization to receive relugolix 120 mg orally once daily after a single loading dose of 360 mg or leuprolide 3-month injections for 48 weeks. Subgroups analyzed by age were <65 years or ≥65 years and ≤75 years o...
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