In patients with previously treated advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), nivolumab significantly increases overall survival and response rates compared with everolimus, according to the final updated analysis of the phase 3 CheckMate 025 trial.A randomized, open-label trial, CheckMate 025 enrolled 821 patients with advanced RCC previously treated with antiangiogenic therapies. Patients were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive 3 mg/kg of nivolumab intravenously every two weeks or 10 mg of everol...
Intravesical nadofaragene firadenovec is an effective and well-tolerated treatment for high-grade nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) carcinoma in situ (CIS) that does not respond to intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), according to results of a multicenter, open-label phase 3 trial presented this past Friday at the 2020 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.For patients with BCG-unresponsive NMIBC, there is a substantial risk of disease recurrence and progression. Cystectomy is often a...
At the 67th Society of Government Service Urologists (SGSU) Kimbrough Urological Seminar, held from January 15th to 19th, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina, i3 Health conducted a survey of participants regarding the formats in which they wished to receive continuing medical education (CME). Thirty-six individuals completed the survey, of whom 35 (97.2%) were physicians and other prescribers of medication. Results showed that despite the ever-increasing ubiquity of technology in our society, uro...
The FDA recently approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda®, Merck) for the treatment of patients with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) unresponsive to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy. The approval was based on Keynote 057 (NCT02625961), a phase 2 trial in which pembrolizumab produced a complete response rate of 41% in patients with this disease. In this interview with i3 Health, Ashish Kamat, MD, MBBS, Professor of Urologic Oncology (Surgery) and Cancer Research at MD Anderson...
The FDA recently approved enfortumab vedotin (Padcev®, Astellas Pharma US, Inc.) for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma whose disease progressed after treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (anti–PD-1) or anti–programmed death ligand 1 (anti–PD-L1) therapy. The approval was based on EV-201, a phase 2 trial in which enfortumab vedotin produced a high rate of response in patients with locally advanced or m...