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A breakthrough for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: Padcev plus Keytruda drug combo could transform treatment around surgery
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.
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 ...
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.
Dr. Matthew Galsky spoke with CURE about the KEYNOTE-B15 trial results and their potential impact on muscle-invasive bladder cancer care. At the 2026 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, the ...
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Diagnosing muscle-invasive bladder cancer: The initial work-up
When a doctor suspects bladder cancer, they will order a series of tests which may include urine tests (urinalysis or urine ...
Perioperative enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab and surgery lead to significantly better outcomes among patients with ...
Inlexzo is a new treatment for a type of bladder cancer in adults that hasn’t spread to the muscles and doesn’t respond to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy. It’s approved for treating non-muscle ...
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Seeing the unseen in bladder cancer surgery
Ten years ago, a discussion in Milan set a demanding project in motion. In a meeting between a biologist and a urologist, one ...
Bladder cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the United States and the 10th leading cause of cancer deaths. Many treatments can be used for bladder cancer, and the kind of ...
The extent of the bladder cancer — how far it has spread — matters. Your care team needs to know if your cancer sits on or in the first lining of your bladder (non-muscle invasive), if it goes into ...
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