- Details
- Joining Ashish Kamat is Arjun Balar, both experts in the field of bladder cancer and each closely involved with the FDA approval of pembrolizumab in the BCG-unresponsive bladder cancer population. Dr. Balar outlines the history of the drug, how the study which led to the FDA approval in NMIBC was designed. Dr. Balar also expands in his approach to counseling his patients who are considering pembro...
|
- Details
- Alicia Morgans and Joshua Meeks discuss the recent advancements in treating Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) unresponsive bladder cancer that came from the 2019 meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology. They review the many promising clinical trials including some early data from the Phase III VICINIUM trial as well as a promising combination intravesical chemotherapy options for non-muscle-invasi...
|
- Details
- Arjun Balar and Alicia Morgans discuss the new era in systemic therapies in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) focusing on the systemic checkpoint inhibitor, pembrolizumab that resulted in the US FDA approval of pembrolizumab for treatment in early bladder cancer. Historically being in the domain of urologic oncologists, Drs. Morgans and Balar discuss the importance of the medical oncologi...
|
- Details
- Cxbladder diagnostic tests combine genomic information from urinary mRNA with phenotypic information to either rule out low-risk individuals or identify patients at a high risk of urothelial carcinoma (UC). In this video presentation, Badrinath Konety overviews this study which aimed to evaluate the performance of Cxbladder and urine cytology and Cxbladder's adjudication of atypical cytology and e...
|
- Details
- Yair Lotan discusses the recently published consensus statement on flexible blue light cystoscopy (BLC™) with Cysview ® . His presentation is centered around the published consensus in Nature Reviews developed by multiple experts (authors) in bladder cancer. Yair discusses the role of blue light flexible cystoscopy with CYSVIEW in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. The expert consensus group met...
|
- Details
- Sia Daneshmand discusses a study published in European Urology which evaluated the atypical cytologies to evaluate the performance of Cxbladder diagnostic tests to either rule out low-risk individuals or identify patients at a high risk of urothelial carcinoma. Cxbladder diagnostic tests combine genomic information from urinary mRNA with phenotypic information. Biography: Siamak (Sia) Daneshmand,...
|
- Details
- Ashish Kamat invites Stephen Williams to present on costs and survival analysis between radical cystectomy and trimodal therapy. He shares results of two studies which patients from 2002-2011 were looked at in both studies focusing on methodology/statistical analyses and the outline of outcomes. This work found that trimodal therapy had significantly worse survival, these findings persisted across...
|
- Details
- Yair Lotan discusses the advancements in the ability to detect bladder cancer and bladder cancer recurrence in the clinic with blue light cystoscopy. Until recently, the technology was only available in the OR but now, with the approval of blue light flexible cystoscopy bladder cancer surveillance can now be done in the clinic. The blue light cystoscopy with CYSVIEW is performed in the clinic to d...
|
- Details
- Anne Schuckman, MD presents the information that supports her decision to use blue light cystoscopy with CYSVIEW in the clinic. She takes us through the data of the studies and her experiences too. Biography: Anne Kathryn Schuckman, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Urology, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Dr. Anne Schuckman graduated from Stanford University and completed her medical training at...
|
- Details
- Thomas Powles joins Charles Ryan discuss toxicity management and the most common toxicities you see in a bladder cancer population with checkpoint inhibitor therapy. Dr. Powles covers three main areas of toxicity management which include going twice as long once you've started immunosuppressants, starting steroids at a grade two toxicity, and the need to educate our patients to put them at the hea...
|
