Petros Grivas, MD, PhD

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, transitions the panel discussion to focus on clinical trial data on combination immunotherapy versus platinum chemotherapy regimens that were recently presented at ASCO GU 2022.

The panel summarizes unmet needs in frontline maintenance therapy for UC and comments on ongoing trials for novel treatment regimens.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, revisits the patient profile and invites panel members to share recommended treatment options for patients with or without FGFR mutations, who progress after chemotherapy and maintenance avelumab.

Experts comment on the typical urothelial cancer maintenance therapy duration in their practice, and situations in which they might consider interrupting treatment while maintaining patient response.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, shares a clinical scenario of a cisplatin-ineligible patient with high PD-L1 expression and lymph node metastases, and experts weigh in on recommended treatment options.

Panel members share insights into strategies and barriers to maintenance therapy for patients with bladder cancer.

Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, comments on patient-reported outcome data and quality of life data in patients receiving maintenance therapy for metastatic urothelial cancer.

Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, discusses recent data from the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial on maintenance avelumab therapy plus best supportive care versus BSC alone.

Experts discuss the role of biomarkers in treatment selection for patients with metastatic UC.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, introduces a patient profile of a woman with metastatic UC and invites panel members to comment on how they might approach initial treatment and management of the patient.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, Shilpa Gupta, MD, Peter H. O’Donnell, MD, Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, and Guru Sonpavde, MD, summarize recent treatment advances for patients with urothelial cancer (UC).

CancerNetwork® recap of an Around the Practice event with Neeraj Agarwal, MD, Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, Guru Sonpavde, MD, Thomas Powles, MBBS, MD, MRCP

Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, leads the discussion on selecting chemotherapy vs immune checkpoint inhibitors in the adjuvant setting for a patient who has metastases in urothelial carcinoma as well as approaching therapy for variant histology.

Guru P. Sonpavde, MD, leads the discussion on the use of adjuvant nivolumab in metastatic urothelial carcinoma and the impact on the subsequent use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in recurrent disease.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD; Guru P. Sonpavde, MD; Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD; and Neeraj Agarwal, MD, comment on the role of biomarker testing and its impact on the patient selection and approach to treatment for advanced urothelial carcinoma.

Experts in bladder cancer discuss when it’s appropriate to use avelumab maintenance therapy both with and without progression of disease in advanced urothelial cancer.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, presents the case of a 78-year-old man with PD-L1+ metastatic urothelial carcinoma, and the panelists share insight on their treatment approach for the given patient.

Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, reviews data and results from the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD; Guru P. Sonpavde, MD; Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD; and Neeraj Agarwal, MD, provide insight on how they approach the patient selection of maintenance therapy in advanced urothelial carcinoma.

Experts in bladder cancer comment on the role of PD-L1 testing in the frontline setting for advanced urothelial cancer and its impact on the use of up-front carboplatin or immunotherapy.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD; Guru P. Sonpavde, MD; Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD; and Neeraj Agarwal, MD, share their approach to frontline therapy for patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma and consider the impact of cisplatin eligibility.

Bladder cancer experts discuss the importance of detecting early signs and symptoms leading to the diagnosis of advanced urothelial cancer.

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, leads the discussion on the typical patient presentation and major risk factors for urothelial cancer.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, regarding updates in genitourinary oncology that were read out at the meeting.

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, discusses the impact of avelumab on patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma in the first-line maintenance setting.

The expert oncologist spoke about the conclusions drawn from the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium, as well as the importance of prognostic biomarkers.

Data from the registry suggested that in patients with cancer and COVID-19, cancer that is progressing was independently associated with an increased risk of death.

The expert oncologist discussed the findings of the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium and how the results of the consortium should inform conversations with patients with cancer.

Data from the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium registry, presented at the 2020 ASCO Annual Virtual Science Program, reported how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted patients with cancer thus far.

Cancer Network spoke with Dr. Petros Grivas about emerging immunotherapy approaches for the treatment of advanced urothelial cancer.