Systemic treatments for metastatic urothelial carcinoma.
Aly-Khan A LalaniGuru P SonpavdePublished in: Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy (2018)
The treatment landscape for first-line therapy of mUC continues to include platinum-based chemotherapy for patients who are eligible. While the approval of ICI has changed the management in those who are post-platinum or platinum-ineligible, the wider use of ICI in the first-line setting requires further clarity given recent FDA announcements. Maintaining the remarkable progress in mUC may depend upon ongoing phase-III studies evaluating treatment options beyond ICI. Better prognostication and identification of those unlikely to respond to ICI remain important unanswered questions, particularly as this class of agents moves further along the disease spectrum of non-metastatic UC.
Keyphrases
- phase iii
- end stage renal disease
- squamous cell carcinoma
- small cell lung cancer
- open label
- clinical trial
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- peritoneal dialysis
- stem cells
- radiation therapy
- patient reported outcomes
- locally advanced
- single cell
- rectal cancer
- bone marrow
- replacement therapy
- drug induced
- bioinformatics analysis