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 ...

Neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy plus chemoradiotherapy offers a safe, effective bladder-sparing approach with promising long-term outcomes in nonmetastatic MIBC. Median disease-free survival ...

Patients that received chemotherapy after bladder cancer surgery demonstrated an approximately 30% lower risk of death than those that underwent surgery alone, according to an analysis to be presented ...

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 ...

Toward the end of the 19th century, a New York City surgeon named Dr. William Coley purposely injected one of his patients with streptococcal bacteria. Coley wasn’t crazy. He hoped the bacterial ...

The American Cancer Society estimates that over 80,000 individuals will be diagnosed with bladder cancer this year.

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Urinary system tumors are a group of tumors that occur in the kidney, ureter, bladder and urethra, of which bladder cancer is the most common, followed by ...

Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is cancer that’s only in the inner lining of your bladder. It hasn’t grown into the muscle wall. Your doctor may also call it superficial bladder cancer, urothelial ...

Intravesical chemotherapy involves a healthcare professional injecting chemotherapy medication directly into the bladder to treat cancerous tumors. “Intravesical” means “within the bladder.” ...