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An expert summarizes that the evolving non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer treatment landscape emphasizes early therapy intensification and personalized management—leveraging advanced diagnostics and varied intravesical therapies—to better distinguish recurrence from progression, aiming to preserve bladder function and improve outcomes while minimizing overtreatment and radical surgery.

An expert summarizes that interpreting trial results requires understanding study design—such as reinduction strategies—and recognizing that regulatory, logistical, and practical factors will influence the adoption of new bladder cancer therapies, emphasizing the need for larger studies and thoughtful integration of efficacy with real-world considerations to guide personalized treatment decisions.

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Panelists discuss how patients with recurrent low-grade bladder cancer, particularly women who may face additional anatomical challenges during transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) procedures, can benefit from UGN-102 as an alternative to repetitive surgical resections, addressing the TURBT treadmill phenomenon where patients undergo multiple procedures with diminishing returns.

An expert summarizes that although it is currently too early to determine optimal sequencing among bladder cancer therapies, emerging strategies involving combination treatments and immune system priming show promise for enhancing efficacy, particularly in high-risk patients, underscoring the need for further research to guide personalized treatment decisions.

An expert summarizes that Tara-002 offers a familiar, intravesical administration and manageable adverse effect profile similar to BCG, making it a safer and more easily adoptable option compared with systemic immunotherapies, especially important for preserving bladder function and quality of life in heavily treated BCG-unresponsive patients.

Jack Andrews, MD; Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH; and Ashley Ross MD, PhD, discuss how trial design, inclusion criteria, and end points like radiographic progression-free survival vs overall survival impact clinical decision-making in prostate cancer treatment, emphasizing the importance of quality of life data and the shift from using ADT alone as standard care toward combination therapies in prostate cancer management.

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Panelists discuss how UGN-102, a reverse thermal hydrogel formulation of mitomycin, offers an FDA-approved ablative treatment option for patients with intermediate-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), demonstrating 80% complete response rates in the ENVISION trial (NCT05243550) and allowing for the de-escalation of surveillance and reduced surgical burden.