Genitourinary Cancer News

The FDA approved nivolumab in combination with cisplatin and gemcitabine for the first-line treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma, according to a press release.

Gemcitabine and platinum chemotherapy administered after nephroureterectomy SIGNIFICSALTY improved OS among certain patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma, updated results form a randomized phase 3 study showed.

Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD, FAACR, will be awarded the 2024 American Association for Cancer Research Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research during the AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Extended family members of men with severe subfertility or infertility may have an increased risk for several different cancer types, study results published in Human Reproduction showed.

To help individuals who undergo cancer treatment lead healthier lives, Stacyann Bailey, PhD, has one overarching professional mission — to prevent bones from breaking.

More than 130,000 cancer cases went undiagnosed during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers estimated in a cross-sectional analysis published in JAMA Oncology.

Limiting eligibility criteria, recruiting trusted community messengers and reducing financial burdens can help improve diversity of clinical trial enrollees, a panel of professionals said during a Friends of Cancer Research webinar.

Use of subjective minimizing terminology, such as “safe” and “tolerable,” when discussing treatment-related toxicities occurs frequently at oncology and hematology conferences, according to a study published in Journal of Cancer Policy.

Patients who underwent cancer surgery had an increased risk for venous thromboembolism for up to 1 year after the procedure, results from a retrospective study published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Adjuvant therapy with pembrolizumab following nephrectomy conferred significant improvement in OS compared with placebo among adults with renal cell carcinoma who had a high risk for disease recurrence, study results showed.