Petros Grivas, ASCO GU22: Current Unmet Needs in the Treatment of Metastatic Urothelial Cancer

touchONCOLOGY were delighted to talk with Dr. Neal Shore (GenesisCare; Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA) to discuss the phase 3 study of pembrolizumab plus chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer. The abstract ‘KEYNOTE-992: A randomized phase 3 trial of pembrolizumab versus placebo in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer receiving concurrent […]

Dr Kim Chi (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada) summarises the first results of the phase 3 MAGNITUDE (NCT03748641) study of niraparib with abiraterone acetate and prednisone as first-line therapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with and without homologous recombination repair gene alterations. Abstract: https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2022.40.6_suppl.012 Questions       What is […]

touchONCOLOGY were joined by Dr Simon Crabb (Southampton University, UK) to discuss his presentation on the rucaparib arm of the ATLANTIS study, a randomized, double blind, biomarker selected, phase II clinical trial of maintenance PARP inhibition following chemotherapy for metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Questions  What is the rationale for the use of PARP inhibitors in the […]