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ASCO23: Novel Approaches in RCC, mUC, and Prostate Cancer

ASCO23: Novel Approaches in RCC, mUC, and Prostate Cancer

FromASCO Daily News


ASCO23: Novel Approaches in RCC, mUC, and Prostate Cancer

FromASCO Daily News

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25 minutes
Released:
May 25, 2023
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Dr. Neeraj Agarwal and Dr. Jeanny Aragon-Ching discuss the CLEAR study in renal cell carcinoma, a new exploratory analysis combining the TheraP and VISION trials in metastatic urothelial cancer, and compelling advances in prostate cancer and across GU oncology in advance of the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.  TRANSCRIPT Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: Hello and welcome to the ASCO Daily News Podcast. I'm Dr. Neeraj Agarwal, your guest host for the ASCO Daily News Podcast today. I'm the director of the Genitourinary Oncology Program and a professor of medicine at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute, and editor-in-chief of the ASCO Daily News. I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Jeanny Aragon-Ching, a GU medical oncologist and the clinical director of the Genitourinary Cancers Program at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia.   Today, we'll be discussing some key abstracts in GU oncology that will be featured at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.  Our full disclosures are available in the show notes and disclosures of all guests on the podcast can be found on our transcript at asco.org\DNpod.   Jeanny, it's great to have you on the podcast today. Dr. Jeanny Aragon-Ching: Thank you so much, Dr. Agarwal, for having me. Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: Jeanny, let's begin with Abstract 4502 regarding long-term updated results on the CLEAR study. The abstract reports the final, prespecified overall survival analysis of the CLEAR trial, a four-year follow-up of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab versus sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma. Dr. Jeanny Aragon-Ching: Yes, I would be happy to. So, just as a reminder, the combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab was initially approved by the FDA in August 2021 for first-line treatment of adult patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma. So, this was based on significant benefits that were seen in progression-free survival, which was a primary endpoint, but also showed improvement in the overall response rates compared with sunitinib in first-line advanced renal cell carcinoma.   So this abstract reports on longer-term follow-up now at a median of 49.8 months, and PFS favored the combination lenvatinib and pembrolizumab compared to sunitinib across all MSKCC risk groups, and PFS benefit versus lenvatinib and pembro compared to sunitinib was maintained with a hazard ratio of 0.47. And even overall survival was also maintained with the combination with a hazard ratio of 0.79, and the overall survival favored the combination across all risk groups. If we look at the CR rate, it was 18.3% for the combination compared to 4.8% with sunitinib, unless patients in the combination arm received subsequent anticancer therapies, and that's intuitive. And the PFS2 was also longer with the combination at 43 months compared to 26 months. Now, it is important to note that grade III or more treatment-related adverse events did occur in about 74% of the patients in the combination of lenvatinib and pembro, compared to 60.3% in patients with sunitinib. Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: Jeanny, this is good news. So the main message from the abstract is that sustained results from this combination of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab are being seen even after a longer follow-up of more than four years.  Dr. Jeanny Aragon-Ching: Yes, I agree. So now, moving on, Neeraj, to a different setting in the RCC space, let's look at Abstract 4519, which is titled “Efficacy of First-line Immunotherapy-based Regimens in Patients with Sarcomatoid and/or Rhabdoid Metastatic Non-Clear Cell RCC: Results from the IMDC,” which will be discussed by Dr. Chris Labaki. So, Neeraj, based on this abstract, can you tell us a little bit more about the impact of these adverse pathologic risk features in non-clear cell RCC?  Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: Of course. So, using real-world patient data, the IMDC investigators compared the outcomes of patients with metastatic non-clear cell RCC who were treated with immunotherapy-based combination regimens versus those
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May 25, 2023
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