#GU22

Описание: Guest host, Dr. Neeraj Agarwal, editor-in-chief of ASCO Daily News and director of the Genitourinary Cancers Program at the University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute, and Dr. Jason Efstathiou, chair of the 2022 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, discuss key abstracts and innovations in GU oncology featured at #GU22. Dr. Efstathiou is a professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Genitourinary Division in Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital.


 


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Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: Hello, and welcome to the ASCO Daily News Podcast. I am Dr. Neeraj Agarwal, the director of the Genitourinary Program and professor of medicine at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute, and editor-in-chief of the ASCO Daily News. Today we'll be discussing key advances in GU oncology featured at the 2022 ASCO Genitourinary (GU) Cancers Symposium. I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Jason Efstathiou, who was the chair of this year's GU ASCO meeting. Dr. Efstathiou is the professor at Harvard Medical School and the director of Genitourinary Division in Radiation Oncology and clinical co-director of The Claire and John Bertucci Center for GU Cancers at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Our full disclosures are available in the show notes and the disclosure of all guests on the podcast can be found on our transcript at asco.org/podcast. Jason, thank you for coming on the podcast today.


 


Dr. Jason Efstathiou: Thank you very much, Neeraj. It's a real pleasure to be with you.


 


Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: So, Jason, the GU meeting showcased some fantastic advances across the spectrum of GU malignancies, can you please tell us about some of the hot topics that made the headlines this year?


 


Dr. Jason Efstathiou: Absolutely. This certainly was a dynamic and interactive hybrid ASCO GU meeting for all those attending in person, live streaming, or accessing the content on-demand. With over 5,200 registrants this year, that's an actual record for this meeting and over 70 countries represented. This meeting truly serves as the premier global event for all those who diagnose, treat and study GU cancers. The meeting highlighted novel scientific and clinical findings that were high impact. [And] in many cases will lead to practice-changing care. The meeting had a real focus on diversity, global perspectives, enhanced interactivity, networking, multidisciplinary, collaborative, and evidence-based care. As you know, this year's theme was “World Class Science, Patient-Centered Care,” and this theme was highlighted throughout the program. The meeting kicked off with a rich day focusing on prostate cancer, lots on PSMA imaging, such as Abstract 9 (https://meetings.asco.org/2022-asco-g...) and a very, very excellent session on PSMA targeting and beyond which explored opportunities and challenges with PSMA novel therapeutics, including biomarkers of response and mechanisms of resistance.


 


Then Abstract 10 (https://meetings.asco.org/2022-asco-g...) looked at PSMA PET and FDG PET as predictors of response and prognosis in a randomized phase 2 trial of Lutetium PSMA (177Lu-PSMA-617) vs cabazitaxel and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) progressing after docetaxel. And it suggested that Lutetium PSMA be prioritized in men with high PSMA expression. And this could actually be predictive. We had some awesome abstracts. Abstracts 222 (https://meetings.asco.org/2022-asco-g...) and 223 (https://meetings.asco.org/2022-asco-g...) suggested that a nozzle digital pathology-based biomarker developed using artificial intelligence is more effective than clinical prognostic markers for predicting long-term outcomes in patients with prostate cancer. And that this AI tool can actually successfully guide the use of androgen deprivation therapy in men with intermediate-risk localized prostate cancer. And then, of course, there were some very exciting results in discussion with the primary results of 3 potentially practice-changing phase 3 trials in the setting of metastatic prostate cancer that were presented in the oral prostate session. These were: PROpel (Abstract 11 (https://meetings.asco.org/2022-asco-g...) ), MAGNITUDE (Abstract 12 (https://meetings.asco.org/2022-asco-g...) ), and the ARASENS trials (Abstract 13 (https://meetings.asco.org/2022-asco-g...) ). Neeraj, as a practicing medical oncologist, what did you think of these 3 abstracts?


 


Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: I agree with you, Jason. These are indeed practice-impacting, practice-changing abstracts, which wa...