Bladder Cancer

Shared insight on best practices in frontline maintenance therapy for metastatic urothelial carcinoma to improve patient outcomes.

Reviewing a patient case of metastatic urothelial carcinoma, experts discuss the selection of frontline and maintenance therapy.

Patients with bladder cancer reported improvements in physical and social scores following radical cystectomy, although body image and sexual functioning scores decreased.

Patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guerin may benefit from treatment with CG0070 plus pembrolizumab.

Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, spoke with CancerNetwork® about the results of the TROPHY U-01 study examining sacituzumab govitecan in the treatment of patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma following failure of platinum-based chemotherapy.

Treatment with induction UGN-101 produced durable responses in patients with low-grade upper tract urothelial carcinoma.

Patients with BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer may benefit from treatment with avelumab and BCG induction therapy

In patients with bacillus Calmette-Guérun–unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who are being treated with nadofaragene firadenovec, elevated levels of antibody titers may be able to predict efficacy.

Patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin–unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer experienced a disease-free survival benefit when treated with intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin and a novel IL-15 superagonist complex .

Patients with Bacillus-Calmette Guérin–unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer experienced promising responses to treatment with of durvalumab and Vicineum, which was also well tolerated.

Patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma did not derive further benefit from the addition of berzosertib to cisplatin and gemcitabine.

Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with gemcitabine and split-dose cisplatin plus pembrolizumab experienced improved pathological downstaging.

Patients with low-grade upper tract urothelial carcinoma achieved a long period of durable response after undergoing treatment with UGN-101.

Erdafitinib plus cetrelimab displayed strong responses for patients with metastatic or locally advanced urothelial carcinoma.

The FDA has approved nivolumab for patients with high-risk urothelial carcinoma regardless of previous treatment with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, nodal involvement, or PD-L1 status.

Patients with muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma who received adjuvant nivolumab experienced a longer disease-free survival compared with those who received placebo.

Novel eganelisib shows survival-extending potential in patients with triple-negative breast and bladder cancers.

Robert A. Figlin, MD, discusses the potential role of adjuvant immunotherapy for patients with bladder cancer.

Until 5 years ago, systemic therapeutic options for urothelial carcinoma, the most common form of bladder cancer, had been limited to cisplatin-based regimens and taxanes. This article explores the current and future outlooks for combination therapy with IOs in urothelial carcinoma.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Matthew D. Galsky, MD, at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting to discuss his thoughts on research he believes has the greatest potential to impact standard of care treatment of bladder cancer.

As a bladder-sparing treatment strategy, transurethral resection of the bladder tumor with nivolumab and chemotherapy showed promise for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

CancerNetwork® sat down with Matthew D. Galsky, MD, at the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting to talk about data from a phase 2 trial examining the use of neoadjuvant nivolumab plus gemcitabine/cisplatin prior to bladder-sparing surgery.

Regardless of primary tumor site or disease stage, avelumab maintenance was able to elicit overall survival benefit versus best supportive care for platinum-treated urothelial cancer.

Vikram Narayan, MD, details the little-known fact that tobacco cessation is a leading preventative strategy of bladder cancer recurrence.

Vikram Narayan, MD, expanded on his data regarding nadofaragene and NMIBC published at this year’s SUO Meeting.

Narayan expanded on the other studies he contributed to from SUO investigating nadofaragene for patients with NMIBC.

At the 2020 SUO Meeting, Vikram M. Narayan, MD, spoke about the preliminary finds of his work with nadofaragene firadenovec.

Narayan discusses what he thinks the future of nadofaragene firadenovec and bladder cancer are at this year’s SUO Meeting.

Patients who underwent pouch diversion reported significantly more regret than patients undergoing neobladder or ileal conduit.

Data for a key study secondary outcome measure showed that 56.1% of patients who achieved a complete response to Jelmyto maintained that response at 12 months.