ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium 2026: key results and trends

What the 890 abstracts at ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium 2026 reported, drug by drug: the readouts that stood out and the targets and modalities that dominated.

abstracts
890
drug-linked abstracts
446
companies
81
from Phase 3 studies
67

Drug-linked abstracts by phase

  • Phase 1 28
  • Phase 1/2 38
  • Phase 2 112
  • Phase 2/3 2
  • Phase 3 67
  • Phase 4 2

Key results

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  1. Phase 3Muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC)Astellas Pharma

    enfortumab vedotin

    Pathological outcomes and disease-free survival (DFS) in KEYNOTE-905: Neoadjuvant and adjuvant (neoadj-adj) enfortumab vedotin (EV) plus pembrolizumab (pembro) in participants (pts) with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who are cisplatin-ineligible.

    Among pts evaluated for DFS (n = 135 in EV + pembro arm; n = 129 in control arm), median DFS was not reached vs 23.6 mo (HR 0.37; 95% CI 0.23–0.59).

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  2. Phase 3Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)Merck

    belzutifan

    Belzutifan (bel) plus lenvatinib (lenva) versus cabozantinib (cabo) for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) after anti–PD-(L)1 therapy: Open-label phase 3 LITESPARK-011 study.

    Median (range) DOR was 23.0 mo (2.0–44.3+) with bel + lenva vs 12.3 mo (1.8+–35.9+) with cabo at IA2.

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  3. Phase 3Muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma (MIBC)

    gemcitabine

    Gemcitabine intravesical system (Gem-iDRS) in combination with cetrelimab (CET) versus chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC): SunRISe-2 final results.

    Gem-iDRS + CET did not show superior BI-EFS over CRT (HR, 1.71 [95% CI, 1.16-2.53]); 24-mo rates were 58.5% vs 66.5%, respectively.

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  4. Phase 3Prostate cancer (PCa)

    cabazitaxel

    Androgen deprivation therapy and radiotherapy with or without cabazitaxel in very-high risk localized prostate cancer: First results of the PEACE-2 randomized phase III trial.

    There was no improvement of cPFS with cabazitaxel (HR: 1.11 [0.87-1.41]; 6-year cPFS rates: 67.2% vs 71.4%).

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  5. Phase 3Prostate cancer (PCa)Bayer

    darolutamide

    Efficacy and safety of darolutamide and ADT in patient subgroups by baseline comorbidities and concomitant medications: ARANOTE post hoc analyses.

    An rPFS benefit for DARO vs PBO was seen across all comorbid (≤4, HR 0.46, 95% CI 0.32–0.65; >4, HR 0.58, 95% CI 0.36–0.93) and conmed (≤4, HR 0.48, 95% CI 0.32–0.72; >4, HR 0.61, 95% CI 0.38–0.97) subgroups.

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  6. Phase 3Prostate cancer (PCa)Novartis

    lutetium lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan

    Health-related quality of life, pain, and symptomatic skeletal events in the phase 3 PSMAddition study of [ 177 Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 ( 177 Lu-PSMA-617) combined with ADT and ARPI in patients with PSMA-positive mHSPC.

    Overall incidences of grade ≥3 AEs and serious AEs were 50.7% and 26.6%, respectively, in the 177 Lu-PSMA-617 arm and 43.0% and 22.8% in the control arm.

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  7. Phase 3Renal cell carcinoma (RCC)Merck KGaA

    avelumab

    Efficacy and safety of avelumab + axitinib vs sunitinib in patients (pts) with very favorable-risk advanced renal cell carcinoma (aRCC): Subgroup analysis from the JAVELIN Renal 101 trial.

    In the avelumab + axitinib vs sunitinib arms, respectively, treatment-related adverse events of any grade occurred in 100% vs 97.2% pts, including grade ≥3 events in 73.3% vs 61.1%, and led to permanent discontinuation of all study drugs in 0% vs 16.7%.

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  8. Phase 2Bladder cancer

    mitomycin c

    Clinical outcomes of neoadjuvant intravesical mitomycin-C therapy administered immediately prior to TURBT in NMIBC: Over three years of follow-up data from a randomized phase II trial.

    Two doses of INAIC with MMC significantly improved 3- and 5-year PFS rates compared to controls (100% vs. 92.1% and 85.8%; HR 0.078, P = 0.014) and 3- and 5-year CFS rates (100% vs. 97.4% and 91.1%; HR 0.078, P = 0.014) using Firth’s penalized likelihood method.

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  9. Phase 2Prostate cancer (PCa)Pfizer

    enzalutamide

    A randomized phase 2 study of enhanced AR blockade with enzalutamide in high-risk patients with biochemical relapse undergoing salvage radiation: Final results from RTOG 3506 (STEEL).

    The SRT+eARB arm had better PFS when compared to the SRT+sADT arm (HR=0.62, 80% CI: 0.42-0.91, one-sided p=0.052).

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  10. Phase 2Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)

    nivolumab

    CYTOSHRINK: A randomized phase II trial of cytoreductive stereotactic hypofractionated radiotherapy with ipilimumab/nivolumab for metastatic kidney cancer.

    In per protocol analysis of pts who received 4 cycles of I/N +/- SBRT, 12-month PFS was 46% vs 56%, ORR was 50% vs 44%, and 18-month OS was 74% vs 79%, for I/N+SBRT (n = 24) vs I/N alone (n = 16).

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  11. Phase 2Prostate cancer (PCa)

    apalutamide

    SAVE: A multicenter randomized phase 2 trial of salvage radiotherapy (SRT) with androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) versus apalutamide (Apa) for biochemical progression after radical prostatectomy (RP).

    PSA response rates were similar at 3 (82% with Apa vs 75% with ADT, p = 0.3), 6 (84% vs 73%, p = 0.12) and 9 (76% vs 74%, p = 0.9) months.

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  12. Phase 2Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)

    pembrolizumab

    Metastasis-directed therapy with or without pembrolizumab for oligometastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma: Pooled analysis of two prospective single-arm phase II trials.

    Adjusted for prognostic factors, median PFS was 28 months after MDT+ICI and 17 months after MDT (HR, 0.57; 95% CI: 0.31 to 0.998; P = 0.049).

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What the abstracts covered

Share of the 446 drug-linked abstracts, by the target, modality, disease and company of each drug. An abstract can count in more than one row, so a list can add up to more than 100%.

  • Antibody-drug conjugates19%86 drug-linked abstracts
  • Bispecific antibodies4%16 drug-linked abstracts

Top targets

  1. PVRL45913%
  2. PSMA4911%
  3. PDCD14811%
  4. AR378%
  5. VEGFR2266%
  6. TUBB235%
  7. VEGFR4225%
  8. MET184%
  9. RET174%
  10. CD274164%

Top modalities

  1. Small molecules27963%
  2. Monoclonal antibodies15034%
  3. Antibody-drug conjugates8619%
  4. Radiopharmaceuticals6715%
  5. Bispecific antibodies164%
  6. Microbial and phage therapeutics164%
  7. Vaccines133%
  8. Peptides123%

Top diseases

  1. Prostate cancer (PCa)10824%
  2. Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)8920%
  3. Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC)7316%
  4. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)4711%
  5. Bladder cancer429%
  6. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC)225%
  7. Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC)215%
  8. Muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma (MIBC)204%
  9. Muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC)174%
  10. Urothelial carcinoma (UC)153%

Most active companies

  1. Astellas Pharma5713%
  2. Merck358%
  3. Novartis327%
  4. Bristol Myers Squibb286%
  5. Bayer256%
  6. Pfizer235%
  7. Johnson & Johnson194%
  8. AstraZeneca174%
  9. Exelixis174%
  10. Sanofi153%

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