Discover a comprehensive palliative care plan designed to enhance quality of life for those with metastatic bladder cancer.
Overall survival is no better for patients diagnosed with NMIBC who progress directly to metastasis.
The combination of Keytruda and Padcev is taking another major step toward securing its position as a leading therapy in the treatment of bladder cancer. The PD-1/antibody-drug conjugate pairing ...
The European Medicines Agency has recommended granting a conditional marketing authorization for ImmunityBio, Inc.‘s (NASDAQ: IBRX) Anktiva (nogapendekin alfa inbakicept) in combination with Bacillus ...
Scientists uncovered how childhood BK virus infections may set off cancer-causing mutations decades later: by activating a host immune system enzyme that attacks DNA. When you purchase through links ...
Tackling a common childhood virus could open the door to preventing bladder cancer, according to new research funded by Kidney Research UK and York Against Cancer. The study, published in Science ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer's Padcev (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv), a Nectin-4 directed antibody-drug conjugate, as a perioperative neoadjuvant treatment and postcystectomy ...
The FDA has approved Pfizer and Astellas’ Padcev (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) plus Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a perioperative treatment for adults with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are ...
What Is Keytruda/Padcev Combination Therapy, and Why Does It Matter? The FDA has approved a new combination therapy that uses two different types of anticancer medicines for treating adults with ...
Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Bladder cancer hits men especially hard. The ...
An experimental treatment method has shown promise in fighting a hard-to-treat form of bladder cancer known as BCG-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). BCG (Bacillus ...
TAR-200, a small drug-releasing implant, wiped out tumors in most patients with high-risk bladder cancer. Its slow, consistent release of chemotherapy proved far more effective than traditional ...