AstraZeneca has fired another volley in its bladder cancer competition with Merck’s Keytruda, with the FDA on Thursday ...
An innovative new treatment option for bladder cancer, recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has been performed for the first time in Maryland. Dr. Heather Chalfin, a urologic ...
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 ...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended the combination of enfortumab vedotin (Padcev, Astellas) with pembrolizumab (Keytruda, MSD) as a first-line option for ...
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 ...
Surgery for advanced bladder cancer includes transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT) to remove tumors and cystectomy to remove all or part of the bladder, with the choice depending on the ...
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 ...