Bladder Cancer

The FDA has granted approval to enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

A priority review of nivolumab plus cisplatin-based chemotherapy as a frontline treatment option for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma is underway.

Frontline treatment with enfortumab vedotin/pembrolizumab is associated with the highest healthcare costs for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

The FDA has granted enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab priority review status for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer following data from the phase 3 EV-302/KEYNOTE-A39 trial.

Nivolumab plus gemcitabine-cisplatin improved overall and progression-free survival in unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

For the first time, a new therapeutic regimen outperformed chemotherapy in improving overall survival in frontline urothelial cancer.

Patients with nonmetastatic clinically node positive bladder cancer who wish to avoid major surgery may achieve similar clinical outcomes with trimodal therapy.

Experts share insights on standard work-up and staging practices for a patient with newly diagnosed bladder cancer.

Expert panelists unpack a patient's bladder cancer presentation, evaluating the presence of typical signs and symptoms that could lead to a diagnosis.

Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab elicited durable responses in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who were ineligible for cisplatin.

Lindsay Diamond, MSN, AGNP-C, AOCNP, discusses findings from CheckMate 274 and other data presented during the 2023 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

Rucaparib may be a viable maintenance therapy option for patients with DNA repair–deficient positive, metastatic urothelial cancer who are unlikely to benefit from avelumab immunotherapy.

Several trials in the field of first-line metastatic urothelial cancer are testing combinations with gemcitabine/platinum-based therapy followed by maintenance avelumab.

The genitourinary cancer space has seen a lot of updates in the past 5-10 years, but where are they all coming from so suddenly? Oncology Nursing News spoke with Michael Lai, ARNP, a nurse practitioner at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, about how the genitourinary cancer space has been able to have so many updates recently.

Nurses must stay up to date with the fast-moving world of bladder cancer.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with dose-dense MVAC extends overall survival compared with other chemo regimens in bladder cancer treated with cystectomy.

A new test that identifies which bladder cancer tumors will become invasive could help reduce health care costs and over-treatment in patients.