Bladder Cancer

Pivotal phase 3 trial launched to confirm promising results in metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

Of 2463 patients with urothelial cancer who underwent comprehensive genomic profiling, 39% harbored ≥1 tier 1-2 genomic alterations.

“The grasper disposable scope may fill the gap as an alternative to the conventional reusable cystoscope,” researchers concluded.

Tele-cystoscopy was found equivalent to traditional cystoscopy with respect to identification of abnormalities and action decisions.

Differences following surgery were related to the control of cancer and adjustments with urinary diversion.

"Therapeutic strategies are needed in the management of NMIBC that recurs after gold-standard intravesical BCG," Gomella writes.

Investigators warn of the dangers of overprescribing antibiotics in cancer care.

The new dose would reduce a patient’s required medical visits by 50%.

Increased usage of bladder diagrams was observed following implementation of the program.

Including the genomic test in the protocol for patient surveillance reduced the average number of annual cystoscopies by approximately 39%.

The cost-savings are particularly noteworthy given prior evidence of blue light imaging enhancing the efficacy of diagnostic cystoscopy.

A multidisciplinary panel outlines criteria for stratifying risk for genitourinary malignancy in patients with microhematuria.

Intravesical Oncofid P-B, a conjugate of paclitaxel and hyaluronic acid, is active in patients with carcinoma in situ of the bladder that is not responsive to bacillus Calmette-Guérin.

Given the efficacy and safety demonstrated, there may be a role going forward for the pembrolizumab/nab-paclitaxel combination in earlier disease stages.

Intravesical instillations prevent recurrence of non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

The study compared regimens for patients with high-risk non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

72.9% of patients with papillary disease achieved high-grade recurrence-free survival at 3 months after initial treatment.

Cabozantinib's single-agent activity opens the potential for combination approaches with immunotherapy in patients with heavily pretreated urothelial carcinoma.

BLC with hexaminolevulinate can be an easily replicable procedure in patients with non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

The FDA has approved the PD-L1 inhibitor avelumab for the frontline maintenance treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

The combination of the personalized cancer vaccine RO719845 and the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab showed strong clinical activity across solid tumors, including bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma.

Median overall survival is the same for both malignancies, study results show.

The dual biomarker of ARID1A mutations and CXCL13 expression was associated with improved overall survival in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma.

Anti–PD-1/PD-L1 agents were associated with similar efficacy across pure and variant histologies in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma, with the exception of those with a neuroendocrine variant.

Pembrolizumab has been granted a second tumor-agnostic FDA indication, this one for patients with solid tumors with a high tumor mutational burden.

Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy achieved a high rate of pathologic downstaging to noninvasive disease and was associated with a high radical cystectomy rate in cisplatin-eligible patients with urothelial cancer.

Avelumab (Bavencio) as a maintenance treatment after chemotherapy significantly extended overall survival in patients with advanced urothelial cancer, according to findings from thephase III JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial.

"In the era of BCG shortage, it would have been highly desirable to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of fewer BCG instillations for high-risk bladder cancer. However, reduced frequency of maintenance BCG instillations is associated with increased risk of cancer recurrence, albeit with fewer adverse effects," writes Badar M. Mian, MD.

The FDA approved an additional recommended dosage of 400 mg every 6 weeks for the anti-PD-1 therapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda), across all adult indications, including monotherapy and combination therapy, Merck reported.

Nadofaragene firadenovec, a novel intravesical gene-mediated therapy, achieved complete response in 53.4% of patients with bacillus Calmette Guérin-unresponsive carcinoma in situ, according to findings from a phase III trial. First author Stephen A. Boorjian, MD, professor of urology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, discusses the study results and their implications.