Immunotherapy in GU Cancers | Specialty

The OncLive Immunotherapy in GU Cancers condition center page is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights on available and investigational immunotherapies in genitourinary malignancies, specifically prostate cancer, urothelial carcinoma, and renal cell carcinoma. This page features news articles, interviews in written and video format, and podcasts that focus on updates with checkpoint inhibitors and the ongoing research with this type of treatment.

Durvalumab Plus Guadecitabine Shows PFS Benefit in Cohort of Patients With ccRCC

April 1st 2024

Durvalumab in combination with guadecitabine was tolerable and led to a PFS benefit in patients with checkpoint inhibitor-naive ccRCC.

China’s NMPA Accepts sBLA for Enfortumab Vedotin Plus Pembrolizumab in Advanced Urothelial Cancer

March 28th 2024

China’s NMPA accepted a sBLA for enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab for the first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

Lenvatinib/Pembrolizumab Maintained Beneficial Outcomes When Evaluated by Tumor Size in RCC

February 2nd 2024

Lenvatinib/pembrolizumab demonstrated efficacy irrespective of tumor burden in advanced renal cell carcinoma in the overall patient population of the phase 3 CLEAR study.

TKI and Immunotherapy Combo Efforts in RCC Remain of Interest as Treatment Arsenal Evolves

December 4th 2023

Final outcomes from the phase 1b/2 Study 111/KEYNOTE-146 trial, evaluating treatment with lenvatinib and pembrolizumab in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, has sparked interest in the use of this combination.

Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Improves OS in Select Patients With RCC After Nephrectomy

November 1st 2023

Adjuvant treatment with pembrolizumab significantly improved overall survival vs placebo in patients with renal cell carcinoma at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence after nephrectomy, or after nephrectomy and resection of metastatic lesions, meeting a key secondary end point of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 trial.

Updated Data Continue to Aid IO-Based Frontline Treatment Decisions in Advanced RCC

October 24th 2023

Tian Zhang, MD, MHS, details how updated data presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting from trials such as KEYNOTE-426 and CLEAR have showed the sustained efficacy of VEGF plus immunotherapy combinations vs sunitinib in the first-line setting; discusses where the immunotherapy-only combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab fits in the frontline setting; and highlights how data from CONTACT-03 provided key insights on the use of immunotherapy in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma after progression on a prior immune checkpoint inhibitor.

Retrospective Data Show Nephrectomy With Immune-Targeted Therapy Offers Potential PFS Benefit in Metastatic RCC

October 24th 2023

Nephrectomy with immune-targeted therapy was associated with a progression-free survival benefit compared with immunotherapy alone in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Enfortumab Vedotin Plus Pembrolizumab Generates Survival Benefit in Previously Untreated Advanced Urothelial Cancer

September 22nd 2023

Treatment with the combination of enfortumab Vedotin and pembrolizumab led to an improvement in overall survival and progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy in previously untreated patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who were eligible for cisplatin- or carboplatin-containing chemotherapy.

Preoperative APL-1202 Plus Tislelizumab Meets pCR Criteria, Moves to Next Stage of Trial in MIBC

September 13th 2023

The Safety Monitoring Committee determined that prespecified criteria for pathologic complete response were met with the use of the PD-1 inhibitor tislelizumab alone or in combination with APL-1202 as neoadjuvant therapy in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Dr Barata on Immunotherapy Treatment and the Gut Microbiome in Kidney Cancer

August 25th 2023

Pedro Barata, MD, MSc, discusses important considerations regarding the relationship between immunotherapy treatment and the gut microbiome when treating patients with kidney cancer.

Investigators Pursue the Role of the Microbiome on Immunotherapy Treatment in RCC

August 1st 2023

Pedro C. Barata, MD, MSc, discusses the importance of further exploring the facets of manipulating the microbiome to augment responses with immunotherapy in RCC, as well as the promise of the bifidogenic live bacterial product, CBM588.

Determining the Optimal Use of Adjuvant Immunotherapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma

June 19th 2023

Kidney and renal pelvis cancers are one of the 10 most common new malignant diagnoses in both men and women in the United States, with an estimated 52,360 new cases in men and 29,440 new cases in women per year.

Dr Aggarwal on the Activity of BXCL701 Plus Pembrolizumab in SCNC mCRPC

April 26th 2023

Rahul Aggarwal, MD, discusses key findings from a phase 2a trial evaluating the combination of BXCL701 and pembrolizumab in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with the small cell neuroendocrine cancer phenotype.

TKI/Immunotherapy Combinations Expand RCC Treatment Options

February 12th 2023

Rohit Kumar, MD, discusses the benefits of TKI/immunotherapy doublets in renal cell carcinoma, unmet needs regarding future research with triplet therapies in the frontline setting, and how hypoxia inducible factor inhibitors may play a role in the treatment of patients who have progressed on prior TKI/immunotherapy combinations.

CYNK-101 Plus Avelumab Mediates ADCC Activity in Select PD-L1+ Solid Tumors

November 13th 2022

CYNK-101 demonstrated synergistic activity when used in combination with avelumab through antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity against PD-L1–positive non–small cell lung cancer, triple-negative breast cancer, and bladder cancer cell lines, according to preclinical data.

Pembrolizumab/Lenvatinib Approved in Europe for Frontline RCC

November 29th 2021

The European Commission has approved the combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

CG0070 Plus Pembrolizumab Shows Early Tolerability and Activity in BCG-Unresponsive Non–Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

November 29th 2021

The combination of CG0070 and pembrolizumab was well tolerated and demonstrated early signals of activity in patients with Bacille Calmette-Guérin-unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Nivolumab/Cabozantinib Continues to Showcase Deep, Durable Responses in Advanced RCC

October 11th 2021

Nivolumab plus cabozantinib continued to significantly improve overall response rate vs sunitinib in patients with previously untreated, advanced renal cell carcinoma, with meaningful response outcomes observed irrespective of dose modifications with cabozantinib and fewer responders in the doublet arm requiring subsequent treatment.

FDA Grants Full Approval to Pembrolizumab for Select Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Cancer

August 31st 2021

The FDA has granted a full approval to pembrolizumab for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who are not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy.

RNAi Therapy ARO-HIF2 Shows Early Activity, Tolerability in Heavily Pretreated Clear Cell RCC

July 7th 2021

The investigational RNA interference therapy, ARO-HIF2, was shown to have encouraging signals of activity with favorable tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.