NMIBC treatment varies by tumor stage, grade, and prior therapies, with high-risk cases often requiring radical cystectomy. Bladder-preserving approaches include intravesical therapies like BCG, ...

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 ...

The FDA has approved an immunotherapy combination therapy for adult patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-naive, high-risk ...

Most people with bladder cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If bladder cancer has spread beyond your bladder, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat ...

Dr. Daniel P. Petrylak discusses the different types of bladder cancer and how treatment options may vary based on disease stage and type. Strategies for the treatment of bladder cancer may vary by ...

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 ...

Before the discovery of newer options and combinations, chemotherapy that included platinum medications like cisplatin or carboplatin was the first choice, says Christopher Wee, MD, a genitourinary ...

Therapeutic options to treat intermediate-risk and BCG-unresponsive bladder cancer, such as medications and ablative therapies, are expanding, and novel PET tracers enable improved diagnosis and ...

Nearly 200,000 Americans are living with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), a severe and fast-growing type of bladder cancer that penetrates the thick muscle layer of the bladder wall. After ...

or on the link below. Non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) comprises 75% of newly diagnosed bladder cancer and poses significant clinical challenges because of high recurrence and progression ...