A research team is shedding new light on Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a decades-old bladder cancer treatment, which is also given as vaccine against tuberculosis. The findings could help improve ...

What Is BCG Treatment for Bladder Cancer? Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the main immunotherapy used to treat early-stage bladder cancer. Immunotherapy uses your immune system to fight cancer. BCG ...

While the current approval focuses on the second-line setting, research is already moving into earlier stages of the ...

How can a tuberculosis vaccine also treat cancer—and potentially make other immunotherapies more effective? That’s the question researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Weill ...

LAS VEGAS -- Event-free survival (EFS) in high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) improved significantly when patients received the PD-1 inhibitor sasanlimab in addition to bacillus ...

Cretostimogene monotherapy achieves a 75.5% complete response rate in high-risk, BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients. The treatment maintains a 46% complete response at 12 ...

The PD-1 inhibitor sasanlimab showed anti-tumor activity and manageable safety in combination with BCG induction and maintenance compared with standard of care in patients with BCG-naïve high-risk ...

In 2022, over 600,000 people across the world were diagnosed with bladder cancer, a 7.1% increase from 2020, putting their life plans on hold to receive standard of care treatments that are not always ...

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, ...

Inlexzo is an intravesical gemcitabine releasing system that is inserted directly into the bladder through a urinary catheter. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Inlexzo ™ ...