October 21st 2024
The decision to withdraw sacituzumab govitecan from the market was made in consultation with the US FDA following negative data from the phase 3 TROPiCS-04 trial.
Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab regimen impresses in locally advanced urothelial cancer
June 17th 2020Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy achieved a high rate of pathologic downstaging to noninvasive disease and was associated with a high radical cystectomy rate in cisplatin-eligible patients with urothelial cancer.
Is a reduced bacillus Calmette-Guérin regimen feasible?
June 2nd 2020"In the era of BCG shortage, it would have been highly desirable to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of fewer BCG instillations for high-risk bladder cancer. However, reduced frequency of maintenance BCG instillations is associated with increased risk of cancer recurrence, albeit with fewer adverse effects," writes Badar M. Mian, MD.
53% of CIS patients achieve complete response with nadofaragene
May 13th 2020Nadofaragene firadenovec, a novel intravesical gene-mediated therapy, achieved complete response in 53.4% of patients with bacillus Calmette Guérin-unresponsive carcinoma in situ, according to findings from a phase III trial. First author Stephen A. Boorjian, MD, professor of urology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, discusses the study results and their implications.
Study evaluates targeted FGFR3 therapy for UTUC vs. UTB
April 22nd 2020New results from a study investigating infigratinib in patients having metastatic urothelial carcinoma with activating FGFR3 mutations and/or fusions indicate that the investigational selective fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 to 3 (FGFR1-3) tyrosine kinase inhibitor may have greater activity for treating upper tract urothelial carcinoma than for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.