Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...
Perioperative enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab and surgery lead to significantly better outcomes among patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin-based ...
What Is BCG Treatment for Bladder Cancer? Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the main immunotherapy used to treat early-stage bladder cancer. Immunotherapy uses your immune system to fight cancer. BCG ...
The most common form of bladder cancer is transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). Non-muscle-invasive TCC is classified as stage Ta when the tumour is confined to the urothelium with no spread into the ...
Cisplatin-based NAC and AMVAC improved two-year MFS in MIBC patients, with a 72.9% overall MFS rate. 17% of all patients and 48% in the AS group avoided cystectomy without metastatic disease. Severe ...
To further complicate clinicians’ treatment decisions, Padcev-Keytruda has become the new standard of care in first-line metastatic bladder cancer, raising the possibility that some physicians might ...
Dr Parikh explained that KEYNOTE-B15 (NCT04700124) is evaluating the role of perioperative enfortumab vedotin (Padcev), an ...
FDA approved Imfinzi with gemcitabine and cisplatin for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, based on NIAGARA trial results showing improved survival outcomes. The regimen integrates immunotherapy in pre- ...
Intravesical chemotherapy involves a healthcare professional injecting chemotherapy medication directly into the bladder to treat cancerous tumors. “Intravesical” means “within the bladder.” ...