Phase 3 RCT Shows Perioperative Enfortumab Vedotin and Pembrolizumab Benefit Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
New Hope for Bladder Cancer Patients Who Can’t Tolerate Standard Chemo
This phase 3 randomized controlled trial enrolled 344 patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer ineligible for cisplatin-based chemothera…
A new two-drug treatment more than doubles the odds of staying cancer-free for bladder cancer patients who can't handle standard chemo.
Durvalumab plus chemotherapy improves event-free and overall survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer compared to chemotherapy alone.
New treatment approach improves survival for advanced bladder cancer patients before surgery
This randomized, phase III, open-label trial evaluated neoadjuvant and adjuvant durvalumab combined with gemcitabine and cisplatin versus ge…
Adding an immune drug to standard chemotherapy before bladder surgery helps patients stay cancer-free longer and live longer than older trea…
Neoadjuvant nivolumab alone or with ipilimumab in cisplatin-ineligible muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Hope for Bladder Cancer When Chemo Isn't an Option
This Phase II trial evaluated neoadjuvant nivolumab alone or with ipilimumab in 30 cisplatin-ineligible patients with muscle-invasive bladde…
Patients with advanced bladder cancer who can't take standard chemo may now qualify for surgery after a new immunotherapy treatment.
Phase II trial finds adding gemcitabine to cisplatin-radiotherapy does not improve 2-year disease-free survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Adding gemcitabine to cisplatin did not improve disease-free survival in bladder cancer patients.
A Phase II randomized trial in 69 patients with pT2-pT3N0M0 muscle-invasive bladder cancer found similar 2-year disease-free survival (58.3%…
Adding gemcitabine to cisplatin radiotherapy did not improve disease-free survival for bladder cancer patients, with similar two-year rates …
Neoadjuvant sacituzumab govitecan plus pembrolizumab shows 39% clinical complete response in MIBC
Drug combination shows promise for bladder cancer patients who cannot take standard chemotherapy
A single-arm phase 2 study of 49 patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer ineligible for cisplatin found a clinical complete response ra…
A new drug combination helped 39% of bladder cancer patients who couldn't take standard chemotherapy achieve a complete response before surg…