Bladder Cancer

Sophia Kamran, MD, discusses future roles that radiation oncology will play in combination with resection and targeted therapy in urothelial carcinoma.

The FDA has accepted the biologics license application for N-803 as a treatment for patients with Bacillus Calmette–Guérin-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ with or without Ta or T1 disease.

Results from a phase 3 study of pembrolizumab and nadofaragene firadenovec in patients with BCG-unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer suggests that immune checkpoint inhibitors have synergy with antibody drug conjugates.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Vignesh Packiam, MD, discussed the research of gemcitabine plus cabazitaxel and pembrolizumab in patients with non-muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma who are unresponsive to docetaxel.

The development of vicineum for the treatment of patients with high-risk, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin-unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer has been voluntarily paused.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Matthew T. Campbell, MD, examined the positive phase 1 study results of infigratinib for the treatment of patients with localized upper tract urothelial cancer.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Sam S. Chang, MD, MBA, discussed the background of N-803 plus BCG in patients with BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer and what he expects for the future of this space.

The FDA has granted fast track designation to belzupacap sarotalocan for the treatment of patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. A phase 1 study is planned to launch in 2022.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Roger Li, MD, discussed the use of the CG0070 in combination with pembrolizumab and nivolumab for patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who are unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guerin.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Sumanta Pal, MD, PhD, discussed the COSMIC-021 study of cabozantinib and atezolizumab across multiple tumor types, including advanced urothelial carcinoma.

After 2-years in the phase 2 POLARIS-3 clinical trial, toripalimab demonstrated clinical activity in patients with urothelial carcinoma.

According to new COSMIC-021 data, atezolizumab combined with cabozantinib may be active in patients with urothelial carcinoma.

During an interview with Targeted Oncology, Shifeng S. Mao, MD, discussed what current and upcoming clinical studies have led to improvements in how physicians treat urothelial cancer.

A biologics license application has been submitted to the FDA for N-803 plus Bacillus Calmette-Guérin as treatment for patients with BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in situ with or without Ta or T1 disease.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Joaquim Bellmunt, MD, PhD, discussed the long-term overall survival data for first-line maintenance avelumab in mUC presented at the AUA 2022 Annual Meeting and a sub-analysis of the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial being read out at the upcoming 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Thomas Flaig, MD, addressed new and emerging systemic therapies for bladder cancer during the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 2022 Annual Conference.

The combination of tislelizumab plus nab-paclitaxel demonstrated benefit and a tolerable safety profile in patients with high-risk non–muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Tislelizumab plus nab-paclitaxel as neoadjuvant treatment demonstrated benefit with a high rate of pathologic complete response in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Both TROP-2 and Nectin-4 were shown to be highly expressed in urothelial cancer and variant histology bladder cancer, but not in patients with neuroendocrine histology.

Health-related quality-of-life outcomes were maintained among patients with low grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who were treated with UGN-102, a chemoablative reverse thermal gel as a primary approach in the single-arm phase 2b Optima II trial.

Interim results from a biomarker-informed preoperative study of infigratinib demonstrated substantial activity and tolerability in patients with localized upper tract urothelial carcinoma, according to findings of a phase 1b trial.

Chemotherapy plus intravenous vitamin C shows benefit in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Long-term follow-up results from the JAVELIN Bladder 100 study further support the standard-of-care role of avelumab as frontline maintenance in patients with urothelial carcinoma.

In patients with high-risk, muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma treated in the adjuvant nivolumab lead to clinically meaningful improvements in disease-free survival compared with placebo.