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 ...
In a trial, ERAS for ambulatory TURBT showed promise for improving early recovery compared with usual care. In a trial, quality of recovery was significantly better for patients receiving an enhanced ...
Radical cystectomy, or complete bladder removal, remains the standard and most effective surgery for muscle‑invasive bladder ...
In a trial of low-grade Ta bladder cancer, photocoagulation was noninferior to standard TURBT in maintaining recurrence-free survival. Office-based laser photocoagulation provides 12-month ...
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.
NCCN now includes Anktiva plus BCG for BCG-unresponsive papillary-only NMIBC, acknowledging an unmet need in patients without ...
Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Bladder cancer hits men especially hard. The ...