Bladder Cancer: Treatment in the Metastatic Setting

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Focusing on the metastatic setting, the expert panel discusses advanced kidney cancer treatment practices, highlighting recent data that are informing treatment decisions.

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Immunotherapy-based combinations may elicit a synergistic effect that surpasses monotherapy outcomes among patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
Considering which non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer cases may be cured by surgery alone may help mitigate overtreatment in this patient group.
Event-free survival benefit was observed among BCG-naïve patients with carcinoma in situ undergoing treatment with sasanlimab plus BCG.
Comprehensive prehabilitation may help prepare patients for bladder-preserving surgery, helping to optimize quality of life outcomes.
Ongoing research suggests environmental exposures and the role of microbiomes may influence bladder cancer development and response to treatment.
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