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 ...
Although bladder cancer ranks as the sixth most common cancer in the United States, with approximately 85,000 new cases diagnosed each year, it continues to receive limited awareness, advocacy, and ...
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 ...
The two blockbusters have made a big difference in bladder cancer survival, but will their chemistry hold up when tested in other types?
A prospective, multicenter phase 2 trial evaluated the safety of neoadjuvant radiation plus immunotherapy before radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.
Nearly 200,000 Americans are living with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC)—and after decades with few major advances, newly presented data may signal a turning point in how the disease is treated.
KEYNOTE-B15 compared perioperative enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab against neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy in cisplatin-eligible MIBC, using event-free survival as the primary endpoint.
More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat ...
Perioperative enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab and surgery lead to significantly better outcomes among patients with ...
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Astellas Pharma reported positive pivotal Phase 3 results for PADCEV plus Keytruda in muscle invasive bladder cancer. The EV-304 (KEYNOTE-B15) trial showed a substantial ...
The American Cancer Society estimates that over 80,000 individuals will be diagnosed with bladder cancer this year. Unfortunately, in the same year, it is estimated that over 15,000 deaths will be ...
Chemotherapy used to target and kill bladder cancer cells may trigger an inflammatory response that ultimately may make the cancer more resistant to treatment, according to new research from ...