[Immunotherapy in the treatment of genitourinary cancers].

Magy Onkol

Kemoterápia C Belgyógyászati-Onkológiai és Klinikai Farmakológiai Osztály, Országos Onkológiai Intézet, Budapest, Hungary.

Published: March 2016

In this clinical review we provide information regarding advance and main achievements in the immunotherapy of genitourinary, particularly renal cell and prostate cancer. Nivolumab treatment became the new standard of care in locally advanced or metastatic renal cell cancer after failure on tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment. Sipuleucel-T prolonged survival in patients with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer but had no effect on progression-free survival. Based on the results of phase I/II trials anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monoclonal antibodies are a new hope in the treatment of urothelial bladder cancer. Regarding germ cell tumors basic research is ongoing.

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