Treatment with Welireg now approved by the FDA helped shrink and stabilize tumors from metastatic renal cell carcinoma with minimal side effects, a patient told CURE®.
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved treatment for some patients with neuroblastoma, kidney cancer and bladder cancer. Elsewhere, a cancer vaccine made headlines for the treatment of patients with melanoma.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Welireg for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, following treatment with a PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor and a VEGF-TKI.
Welireg led to improved time to progression and objective response rates compared to Afinitor for patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, according to study findings.
ANZUP Mini ASM 2020: ANZUP Trial Update - The ENZAMET Trial
(UroToday.com) The 2020 Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group (ANZUP) Mini Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) featured a session on ANZUP trial updates, including an update of the critical Phase III ENZAMET trial provided by Drs. Ian Davis, Arun Azad, and Lisa Horvath.
Dr. Davis started by recapping the 2019 publication of ENZAMET.
1 This trial randomly assigned 1,125 metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) patients from March 31, 2014, to March 24, 2017: 562 in the non-steroidal anti-androgen and 563 in the enzalutamide arm. The trial schema is as follows:
The treatment groups were well balanced for all important baseline factors. In the non-steroidal anti-androgen arm, 44% of patients were planned for early docetaxel, compared to 45% in the enzalutamide arm; 53% of patients in the non-steroidal anti-androgen arm were high volume metastatic burden compared to 52% in the enza