ESMO 2020 Congress: Focus in Genitourinary Cancers | Supplements and Featured Publications

September 21, 2020

Findings from the noncomparative, phase 2, biomarker-driven BIONIKK trial demonstrated clinical evidence to support the use of molecularly-directed frontline therapy as means to enrich responses in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

September 21, 2020

Treatment with cabozantinib in combination with atezolizumab demonstrated promising clinical activity in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

September 20, 2020

Ipatasertib combined with abiraterone acetate plus prednisone led to a significantly superior radiographic progression-free survival and antitumor activity compared with placebo plus abiraterone/prednisone in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with PTEN loss.

September 20, 2020

Olaparib induced a significantly longer duration of overall survival, compared with enzalutamide or abiraterone plus prednisone, in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who had tumors with at least 1 alteration in BRCA1, BRCA2, or ATM and whose disease had progressed during previous treatment with a next-generation hormonal agent.

September 19, 2020

Sacituzumab govitecan-hziy continued to showcase significant activity with favorable tolerability in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma who progressed on both platinum-based chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibition.

September 19, 2020

The benefits conferred by the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab for the first-line treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma remained durable after 4-year follow-up compared with treatment with sunitinib.

September 19, 2020

The combination of nivolumab and cabozantinib led to a 49% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death, while also significantly improving overall survival and doubling objective response rate, compared with sunitinib in the first-line treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

September 18, 2020

Frontline maintenance treatment with avelumab plus best supportive care improved both progression-free and overall survival compared with BSC alone across prespecified subgroups of patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma that has not progressed on first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.

September 18, 2020

The investigational PD-L1 inhibitor BGB-A333 in combination with the PD-1 inhibitor tislelizumab demonstrated marked antitumor activity, durable clinical responses, and a tolerable safety profile in patients with urothelial carcinoma.

September 18, 2020

Enfortumab vedotin-ejfv resulted in a significant improvement in overall survival versus chemotherapy in adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who received prior treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor.