Bladder Cancer: Treatment Options and Managing Adverse Effects

"In the last decade, we've observed a high number of new alternatives within clinical trials, especially with intravesical delivery," says Félix Guerrero-Ramos, MD, PhD, FEBU.

Zeyad Schwen, MD, a urologic oncologist at Cleveland Clinic, discusses how patient factors and cancer characteristics are key to deciding between focal therapies and whole gland treatment for prostate cancer.

“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.

In this episode, Ashish M. Kamat, MD, MBBS, highlights the state of bladder cancer care in recognition of Bladder Cancer Awareness Month.

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.