NMIBC treatment varies by tumor stage, grade, and prior therapies, with high-risk cases often requiring radical cystectomy. Bladder-preserving approaches include intravesical therapies like BCG, ...

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 ...

Jimi Stewart, a rollerblading enthusiast from Austin, Texas, was diagnosed with a type of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer ...

Dr. David Greenberg outlines bladder cancer staging, BCG, immunotherapy, surgery, quality of life impacts and long-term ...

Although bladder cancer ranks as the sixth most common cancer in the United States, with approximately 85,000 new cases diagnosed each year, it continues to receive limited awareness, advocacy, and ...

Most people with bladder cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If bladder cancer has spread beyond your bladder, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat ...

Therapeutic options to treat intermediate-risk and BCG-unresponsive bladder cancer, such as medications and ablative therapies, are expanding, and novel PET tracers enable improved diagnosis and ...

Before the discovery of newer options and combinations, chemotherapy that included platinum medications like cisplatin or carboplatin was the first choice, says Christopher Wee, MD, a genitourinary ...

“There’s almost this disbelief that washes over you, like your brain can’t fully process what it’s being told," James “Jimi” ...

When you have metastatic bladder cancer, treatment plans often shift to address changes in the cancer, manage side effects, or take advantage of newer options. Even when medically necessary, making ...

or on the link below. Non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) comprises 75% of newly diagnosed bladder cancer and poses significant clinical challenges because of high recurrence and progression ...