Genitourinary Cancer News

The 2018 introduction of calorie labels to restaurant menus appears to have yielded a net reduction in caloric intake of 20 to 60 calories per meal among Americans, potentially reducing risk for obesity-associated cancers.

Men exposed to Agent Orange during their military service had a modestly increased risk for bladder cancer, results of a retrospective study of Vietnam veterans showed.

CHICAGO – Cabozantinib plus nivolumab showed promising efficacy in patients with papillary, unclassified or translocation-associated renal cell carcinoma, according to updated phase 2 study results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

CHICAGO — Post-hoc analyses of the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial confirmed the acceptable long-term safety of avelumab first-line maintenance for advanced urothelial carcinoma, according to a presentation at ASCO Annual Meeting.

A series of studies showed that loss of the Y chromosome helps cancer evade the body’s immune system response, resulting in more aggressive bladder cancer in men as they age.

A gene signature model appeared to predict response to cisplatin chemotherapy among tumor samples from patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to early-phase study results.

In this video, Nour Abdallah, MD, discusses an abstract presented at American Urological Association Annual Meeting that investigated tumor contact surface area score and the potential use of artificial intelligence models in kidney cancer.

CHICAGO — Researchers were unable to identify a discrete genomic biomarker of PFS after second line of therapy to help guide first-line regimen selection for patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, according to a poster presentation at ASCO Annual Meeting.

CHICAGO —Age-adjusted mortality rates in kidney cancer have decreased across all genders, races and ethnicities and in most states in the U.S. over the past 2 decades,according to a poster presentation at ASCO Annual Meeting.

In this video, Nour Abdallah, MD, discusses an abstract from American Urological Association Annual Meeting on the use of artificial intelligence to predict the postoperative glomerular filtration rate after partial or radical nephrectomy.