Shilpa Gupta, MD, discusses bladder preserving strategies for unfit or young patients, trials assessing immunotherapy combinations, and results from the BLASST-1 trial presented at ASCO GU.
A retrospective study clarifies how the implementation of avelumab maintenance looks in real-world practice, according to an expert from Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
First-line maintenance with avelumab in locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma yields efficacy that appears consistent between clinical and real-world settings.
Results from the phase 3 IMvigor130 trial reveal a trend towards overall survival improvement when atezolizumab plus chemotherapy was given to patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma vs placebo.
An exploratory analysis indicates that overall survival did not improve with the use of single-agent atezolizumab in untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.