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, ...

Radical cystectomy involves bladder removal and urinary diversion, often using a laparoscopic robot-assisted approach for precision and access. The surgery lasts four to six hours, with a recovery ...

Padcev is approved for use in combination with the programmed death 1 inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) or Keytruda QLEX (pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa-pmph) as neoadjuvant treatment and ...

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 ...

An update from the phase 2 LEGEND trial shows that the investigational nonviral gene therapy detalimogene voraplasmid has achieved a 62% complete response rate at six months in patients with high-risk ...

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 ...