“The take-home message here is that adjuvant nivolumab improves disease-free survival in patients with muscle-invasive urothelial cancer at high risk for recurrence after surgery,” says Matthew D. Galsky, MD.
In this video, Matthew D. Galsky, MD, discusses the takeaways and further research associated with the study, “Disease-free survival with longer follow-up from the phase 3 Checkmate 274 trial of adjuvant nivolumab in patients who underwent surgery for high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma,” which was presented at the 2021 Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting. Galsky is a professor of medicine and director of genitourinary medical oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, and the co-director of the Center of Excellence for Bladder Cancer and associate director for translational research at the Tisch Cancer Institute in New York City, New York.
Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab improves survival in frontline urothelial cancer
September 22nd 2023The EV-302 trial is the confirmatory trial for the FDA’s accelerated approval of pembrolizumab plus enfortumab vedotin for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.
Speaking of Urology Podcast: Dr. Ritch and Dr. Katz discuss new bladder cancer management app
December 7th 2021“It's not a replacement for clinical judgment, obviously. But at the end of the day, the idea is that it shows you what your next steps are based on what the American Urological Association and [Society of Urologic Oncology] guidelines are for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer,” Chad R. Ritch, MD, MBA, FACS.
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