Bladder Cancer

"Numerous clinical studies have exhibited significantly improved tumor detection rates with BLC," write Zachary L. Smith, MD, and Norm D. Smith, MD.

A look at Urology Times' most-read articles on bladder cancer reveals a variety of topics, ranging from radical cystectomy to the role of protein- and cell-based urinary biomarkers for bladder cancer detection and surveillance.

The use of intravesical cisplatin nanoparticles reduces cancer cell proliferation while limiting drug absorption beyond the bladder barrier, according to early findings.

Researchers from The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network have outlined five distinct expression subtypes of muscle-invasive bladder cancer, each of which may be targetable by different treatments.

A bladder-sparing approach for the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer increases quality-adjusted life years compared with radical cystectomy in appropriately selected patients.

Trimodal therapy could offer superior overall survival versus radical cystectomy in certain subsets of patients with bladder cancer, according to a retrospective analysis presented at the 2017 Society of Urologic Oncology annual meeting in Washington.

Mitomycin C instillation within 24 hours after transurethral resection of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer significantly reduces the risk of recurrence and delays the time to recurrence.

"We will review the evidence and identify potential areas of improvement that can help reduce costs associated with UCB management while improving outcomes," write Daniel J. Lee, MD, and Sam S. Chang, MD.

Current NCCN guidelines are comparable to European models for predicting nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer recurrence and progression. But better models are needed, according to a recent study.

Adding ramucirumab (CYRAMZA) to standard docetaxel (Taxotere) improved progression-free survival compared with docetaxel alone in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who have progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy.

Blue light flexible cystoscopy (D-Light C PDD Flexible Videoscope System) with intravesical hexaminolevulinate HCl (HAL [Cysview]) for surveillance in the office setting significantly improved the detection of recurrent bladder tumors compared with white light cystoscopy.

"Overall, the take-home message is that [blue light cystoscopy], whether in the clinic or the OR, increases the detection of tumors," writes Jeffrey M. Holzbeierlein, MD.

Photothermal treatment with epidermal growth factor receptor-directed gold nanorods results in considerable antineoplastic activity in an early study of bladder cancer.

“rAd-IFNα gene therapy is a breakthrough opportunity for effective local management of BCG-unresponsive NMIBC,” says researcher Colin P. N. Dinney, MD.

Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center have made novel discoveries about the genomic signatures of cancers-including bladder cancer-in smokers and African-American patients.

New research characterizing the molecular mechanisms regulating immune cell infiltration into the luminal subtype of muscle-invasive bladder cancer may explain resistance to treatment with immune checkpoint blockade and suggest a target for improving therapeutic response.

Patients treated with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) as second-line therapy for advanced urothelial carcinoma following platinum-based chemotherapy maintain better health-related quality of life than their counterparts receiving chemotherapy, according to results from the phase III KEYNOTE-045 trial presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago.

An easy-to-administer urine test looking for telomerase reverse transcriptase mutations helps detect recurring urothelial bladder cancer, especially non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, early on, according to a new study.

Urology Times reached out to three urologists (selected randomly and asked them each the following question: How will immunotherapy change the future of bladder Ca care?

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For suspected low-grade, newly diagnosed, or occasionally recurrent bladder cancer, a single post-transurethral resection of bladder tumor instillation of gemcitabine (Gemzar) reduces bladder cancer recurrence by 47%, according to a recent study.

Evaluation of upper tract surveillance for high-grade, nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer and evidence suggesting that androgen receptor activity may be related to recurrence and treatment of bladder cancer were among the take-home messages in this area from AUA 2017.

In patients with stage II to III urothelial carcinoma, bladder-preservation therapy was associated with poorer overall survival compared with radical cystectomy, according to a database study.

Researchers have observed an association between a lifetime of inactivity and higher risks for bladder and renal cancers.

There are no notable differences in overall survival, disease-specific survival, and progression-free survival between radical cystectomy and bladder-preserving combined modality treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to a recent meta-analysis.