Bladder Cancer

"Our next goal is transitioning to really understand the patient experience and how we can support them to quit smoking cigarettes," says Marc Bjurlin, DO, MSc, FACOS.

"It really opened up an opportunity to provide support for our patients with bladder cancer who smoked in patient after that teachable moment of surgery," says Marc Bjurlin, DO, MSc, FACOS.

There was an overall response rate of 39% among the 18 evaluable patients, including 1 complete response and 6 partial responses.

Gary D. Steinberg, MD, summarizes his major takeaway from the AUA 2024 conference and shares his insights on the potentially practice-changing developments he anticipates in the near future for the management of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).

Gary D. Steinberg, MD explains the implications of the BOND-003 results for clinical practice in treating non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), highlighting the potential benefits of novel immunotherapeutic options like cretostimogene grenadenorepvec as a bladder-sparing therapy for BCG-unresponsive high-risk NMIBC, and discusses how this treatment could fit into the NMIBC treatment landscape if approved.

“The MAT2A-Trop2 ADC combination targets 2 distinct, yet complementary nodes in patients with MTAP-deleted urothelial cancer and has first-in-class potential to improve clinical outcomes for bladder cancer patients with poor prognosis associated with MTAP-deletion," says Darrin M. Beaupre, MD, PhD.

“These NIAGARA data show for the first time that adding durvalumab to chemotherapy before surgery followed by durvalumab extends patients’ lives," says Thomas Powles, MD.

Expert urologist reviews the BOND-003 study, discussing its design, interim outcomes, safety and efficacy data, and the potential for cretostimogene grenadenorepvec to provide a durable response in patients with high-risk, BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Subcutaneous nivolumab is also under review in the United States based on findings from the phase 3 CheckMate-67T trial.

N-803 was approved by the FDA in April 2024 for the treatment of patients with BCG-unresponsive NMIBC carcinoma in situ with or without papillary tumors.

Cretostimogene grenadenorepvec is an intravesical oncolytic immunotherapy currently under investigation in phase 3 trials.

Bladder cancer experts discuss quality of life and progression considerations and their impact on treatment decisions for patients with BCG-unresponsive NMIBC.

The 12-month duration of response was 82.3% among patients with LG-IR-NMIBC who achieved a complete response at 3 months following the first UGN-102 instillation.

Gary D. Steinberg, MD, analyzes data from the BOND-003 study presented at AUA 2024, which investigated the use of intravesical cretostimogene grenadenorepvec for treating high-risk, BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with carcinoma in situ, and discusses the mechanism of action of this novel oncolytic viral therapy.

Jason Hafron, MD, CMO, provides an overview of the QUILT trial investigating N-803 in patients with BCG-unresponsive high-grade non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

The panel reviews data from the SunRISe-1 trial investigating TAR-200 and offers its impressions on the efficacy and safety findings.

"We found that, in our study, approximately 25% of patients who have had opioids prior to their cystectomy will continue to use opioids 3 to 6 months after their surgery," says Christopher J. Staniorski, MD.

“CORE-001’s excellent efficacy, long-term durability of response, and favorable benefit-to-risk-ratio profile seen with combination cretostimogene and pembrolizumab suggest the potential for a novel bladder-sparing therapy in the BCG-unresponsive NMIBC setting,” said Roger Li, MD.

Expert urologist explores potential treatments for BCG-unresponsive intermediate and high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), including immune checkpoint inhibitors, oncolytic viral therapy, cytokine agonists, immunomodulators, and the recently approved drugs pembrolizumab and nogapendekin alfa inbakicept-pmln.

Bladder cancer experts discuss the evolving treatment landscape in BCG-unresponsive NMIBC and give an overview of TAR-200, an emerging therapy.

A panel of experts on non–muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) discuss challenges associated with BCG shortages and the impact on treatment options and patients’ quality of life.

Gilead reported that a numerical improvement in OS favoring sacituzumab govitecan was observed, though the end point was not reached in the intent-to-treat population.

Gary D. Steinberg, MD, discusses the unmet needs and current standard of care for patients with intermediate and high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).

The approval is based on findings from the phase 3 CheckMate-901 study.

"I think [these are] important data to [give to] your patients," says Laura Bukavina, MD, MPH.

“One of the biggest things that this brings us to for an update of upper tract disease is biopsy alone of an upper tract tumor is not good enough anymore--we must risk stratify these patients,” says Katie S. Murray, DO.

"In [bladder cancer], many women's diagnosis is delayed because their hematuria or microscopic hematuria is blamed on urinary tract infections rather than cancer," says Amy Luckenbaugh, MD.

"Our first question is, in patients who were on the GLP1R agonists for a prolonged period of time, were those patients at increased or decreased risk of developing the most common GU malignancies?" says Laura Bukavina, MD, MPH.

RAG-01 is an saRNA therapy that is delivered via intravesical instillation and is designed to target and activate p21, a tumor suppressor gene.

“But more importantly, there are patients who have no insurance, there are patients who have no other resources and are maybe even on the poverty line. We feel, importantly, that we have an obligation that the drug be made free for these patients in the United States,” says Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD.