A breakthrough in bladder cancer treatment is helping save more lives. The American Cancer Society estimates that 83,000 new cases of bladder cancer will be diagnosed this year. 17,000 will die from ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat ...

Signatera detects molecular residual disease in bladder cancer by identifying tumor DNA fragments in the bloodstream, even when not visible on scans. The IMvigor010 trial showed that Signatera-guided ...

What Is Zusduri Used For? Zusduri is used to treat a certain type of recurrent, persistent bladder cancer known as LG-IR-NMIBC. About 75% of people with bladder cancer present with non-muscle invasive ...

Patients with a common aggressive type of bladder cancer could get correct treatment significantly quicker as new research suggests that initial MRI imaging and biopsy could be used to reduce the time ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published draft guidance recommending avelumab (Bavencio, Merck Serono) for the treatment of certain forms of bladder cancer. Adults with ...

“You have cancer.” Few words carry more weight. For people diagnosed with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), advances in the field can be encouraging; yet, even amid innovation and ongoing ...

When you learn you have bladder cancer, it’s only natural to ask: "Can I survive this, for how long, and can I expect to be cured?" You may have searched online for survival rate information. These ...