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 ...
Radical cystectomy, or complete bladder removal, remains the standard and most effective surgery for muscle‑invasive bladder ...
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 US Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson’s drug delivery system for a type of bladder cancer, offering a potential surgery-free option for patients. The drug release system, ...
NCCN now includes Anktiva plus BCG for BCG-unresponsive papillary-only NMIBC, acknowledging an unmet need in patients without ...
Diagnostic test based on urinary tumor markers hold promise for earlier or prompt detection of bladder cancer in patients ...
Non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) continue to pose significant clinical and health-economic challenges in ...
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 ...
Bladder cancer can cause pain when it spreads to different areas of the body. From NSAIDs to nerve blocks, here are the ...