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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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.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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).
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.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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.
gemcitabine
Gemcitabine intravesical system (Gem-iDRS) in combination with cetrelimab (CET) versus chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC): SunRISe-2 final results.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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.
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.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)There was no improvement of cPFS with cabazitaxel (HR: 1.11 [0.87-1.41]; 6-year cPFS rates: 67.2% vs 71.4%).
darolutamide
Efficacy and safety of darolutamide and ADT in patient subgroups by baseline comorbidities and concomitant medications: ARANOTE post hoc analyses.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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.
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.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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.
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.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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%.
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.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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.
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).
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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).
nivolumab
CYTOSHRINK: A randomized phase II trial of cytoreductive stereotactic hypofractionated radiotherapy with ipilimumab/nivolumab for metastatic kidney cancer.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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).
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).
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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.
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.
Read the abstract (opens in a new tab)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).
Trends at ASCO GU 2026
Small molecules were the most frequent modality (63% of drug-linked abstracts). PVRL4 was the most frequent target (13%). Prostate cancer (PCa) was the most frequent disease (24%).
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
- PVRL45913%
- PSMA4911%
- PDCD14811%
- AR378%
- VEGFR2266%
- TUBB235%
- VEGFR4225%
- MET184%
- RET174%
- CD274164%
Top modalities
- Small molecules27963%
- Monoclonal antibodies15034%
- Antibody-drug conjugates8619%
- Radiopharmaceuticals6715%
- Bispecific antibodies164%
- Microbial and phage therapeutics164%
- Vaccines133%
- Peptides123%
Top diseases
- Prostate cancer (PCa)10824%
- Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)8920%
- Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC)7316%
- Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)4711%
- Bladder cancer429%
- Renal cell carcinoma (RCC)225%
- Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC)215%
- Muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma (MIBC)204%
- Muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC)174%
- Urothelial carcinoma (UC)153%
Most active companies
- Astellas Pharma5713%
- Merck358%
- Novartis327%
- Bristol Myers Squibb286%
- Bayer256%
- Pfizer235%
- Johnson & Johnson194%
- AstraZeneca174%
- Exelixis174%
- Sanofi153%
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