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“Our PPP nomograms accurately stratify high- vs. low-risk groups for overall survival in early and late stages of prostate cancer and yield better prediction than established clinical risk tools," wrote the authors.

"A global consensus on standardization of terminology, separation of LUTS vs pain for outcome, HL positivity and negativity, markers for disease, and the role of new interventions for local vs systemic therapy is needed," writes Gopal H. Badlani, MD.

According to the authors, "These results support the use of Benmelstobart plus anlotinib as a new first-line treatment for advanced RCC.”

"But for physicians considering chemotherapy for which there is equipoise, the Decipher test could be used to swing the decision one way or the other," says Gerhardt Attard, MD, PhD, FRCP.

“There is no clear evidence that adding metformin to standard of care increases overall survival in unselected patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive disease," said Silke Gillessen, MD.

Andrea Necchi, MD, reported that pCR was 42% (95% CI, 28-56) in cohort 1 and 23% (95% CI, 10-41) in cohort 2.

At a median follow-up of 9 months, the confirmed objective response rate to disitamab vedotin plus pembrolizumab was 75% in the overall population.

Patients with at least 1 NE-positive marker were shown to have a worsened rPFS and OS.

In the experimental arm, 41% of patients had an undetectable PSA level at week 48 vs 16% in the control arm (OR=3.88; 95% CI, 1.61-9.38, P = .002).

“What we’ve shown is [EV/pembrolizumab] outperforming chemotherapy in all subgroups," says Thomas B. Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD.

According to the authors, “darolutamide significantly reduced the risk of radiological progression or death by 46%” (HR=0.54, 95% CI, 0.41-0.71, P < .0001).

On Cox regression analysis, glycoproteins were predictive of PFS response to nivolumab plus cabozantinib vs sunitinib (P < .01).

New data from ESMO 2024 support an initial dose of Radium223 prior to chemotherapy among patients with mCRPC.

New findings from the open-label SPLASH trial show patients with mCRPC achieved improved progression-free survival as well as response rates and antigen-specific reductions.

“The overall survival showed a 25% reduction in the risk of death. This is statistically significant,” said Thomas B. Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD.

At a median follow-up of 44.8 months, median DFS in the pembrolizumab arm was 29.6 months vs 14.2 months in the observation arm.

The results “support the prioritized development of TAR-200 monotherapy in patients with BCG-unresponsive high-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer," said Michiel van der Heijden, MD, PhD.

Median OS was 35.0 months in the enzalutamide-alone arm vs 42.3 months in the combination arm.

Late-breaking data from ESMO 2024 suggest ipilimumab / nivolumab may be a new standard of care for non-clear cell renal cell cancer.

“NKT2152 demonstrated robust anti-tumor activity in a heavily pretreated, high-risk advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma population," said Eric Jonasch, MD.

Investigators observed promising clinical effect with the EGFR / HER3 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate.

"These final analysis results of LITESPARK-005 support belzutifan as a treatment option in refractory kidney cancer after checkpoint inhibitor and VEGFR-TKI therapy," says Brian Rini, MD.

Data from the TiNivo-2 trial showed a median progression-free survival of 5.7 months in the tivozanib plus nivolumab arm vs 7.4 months in tivozanib monotherapy arm.

Based on preliminary data, the Safety Review Committee has recommended that the trial proceed with dosing the final 3 patients in the cohort.

“As health care professionals, we should take a multidisciplinary approach to addressing the stress of a cancer diagnosis by helping mitigate financial toxicity, treatment burden, and emotional impact on both the patient and their family," says Mouneeb M. Choudry, MD.

“NSD2 is a cancer specific collaborator of the androgen receptor that essentially rewires its activity to support prostate cancer development," says Abhijit Parolia, PhD,

The ZIRCON trial reported high accuracy of TLX250-CDx in detecting and characterizing ccRCC in patients with indeterminate renal masses.

“We hope to learn more about the urinary tract and then be able to correlate predisposition to UTIs or other urological conditions with urobiome composition or marker microbe presence,” says Tatyana A. Sysoeva, PhD.