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- (Length of discussion: 21 minutes) Maria De Santis and Alicia Morgans review the role of chemotherapy in genitourinary malignancies. This discussion evolves to appropriate patient selection, sharing clinical preference in dosing chemotherapy and their view of supportive care. Biographies: Maria De Santis is a medical oncologist and Chair of Section for Interdisciplinary Genito-Urinary Cancer Medic...
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- (Length of Discussion: 16 min) Arjun Balar and Alicia Morgans discuss outcomes in bladder cancer trials with a focus on primary endpoints, duration of response, and adverse events. Trials to practice with accurate clinical staging may lead to the ultimate goal of organ conservation in this patient population. Biographies: Arjun Balar, MD is the director of the genitourinary medical oncology progra...
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- (Length of Discussion: 12 min) Alicia Morgans and Josh Meeks highlight ongoing trials in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Reviews of SWOG 1602 and 1605, highlight the great work being done in the search for treatment options for patients with this disease, the ultimate hope for patients is to retain their bladder and potentially be cancer-free. Biographies: Joshua J Meeks, MD, Ph.D., is an Assi...
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- (Length of Presentation: 10 min) Alicia Morgans, MD and Bishoy Faltas, MD have an energetic conversation about the tremendous progress they have seen in the recent years in bladder cancer. Dr. Faltas takes us through some of the current research with IO therapy, specifically checkpoint inhibition; where they are currently used and where the clinical data may expand the use of these agents. He revi...
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- (Length of Discussion: 30 min) Tom Keane, MBBCh, FRCSI, FACS provides a detailed overview of the CARMENA study, presented by Arnaud Mejean MD, Ph.D. at ASCO 2018. This Phase III randomized trial assessed the utility and timing of CNx in the treatment paradigm of mRCC comparing patients who were randomized to either CNx and sunitinib vs sunitinib alone without CNx. He discusses the clinical applica...
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- (Length of Discussion: 23 min) Petros Grivas and Alicia Morgans talk post-ASCO 2018 about a number of studies and abstracts presented. The first they review is the ABACUS study presented by Thomas Powles, MD. This single arm, phase II study investigated two cycles of atezolizumab (1200mg every three weeks) prior to radical cystectomy among patients with T2-4N0M0 urothelial carcinoma. The second st...
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- (Length of Discussion: 16 min) Petros Grivas and Alicia Morgans discuss the late-breaking FDA Alert announcing the label changes for Pembrolizumab and Atezolizumab as Monotherapy to Treat Urothelial Cancer with Low Expression of PD-L1. Biographies: Petros Grivas MD, Ph.D. a medical oncologist at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance with expertise in genitourinary cancers such as bladder cancer, prostate c...
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- (Length of conversation: 14 minutes) Alicia Morgans and Arjun Balar converse on the long-term efficacy data of atezolizumab in the 1st line setting as well as the 2nd line setting from the single-arm phase 2 trial. Discussion evolves to the recent safety alerts by the FDA highlighting the two studies, Keynote 361 and IMvigor 130. They question the applicability to clinical practice and the challen...
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- Medical oncologist, bladder cancer survivor, and author of Journey from Oncologist to Cancer Survivor and Patient Advocate in the Era of Precision Medicine, Burt Needles who was diagnosed with a rare form of bladder cancer, plasmacytoid variant in 2013, talks with Alicia Morgans about his unique perspective as a medical oncologist and clinician to a cancer survivor and patient advocate. Biographie...
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- (Length of Discussion: 11 min) Ashish Kamat, MD, MPH and Alicia Morgans, MD discuss non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, where the field stands particularly for BCG refractory patients and the definition of the BCG unresponsive patient. Ashish overviews the efforts of the SUO-CTC Bladder Committee and important updates and trials in this disease state . Biographies: Ashish M. Kamat, MD Alicia Morga...
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