Bladder Cancer

Patient-reported outcome measures are increasingly used to assess symptoms, treatment tolerance, and quality of life (QoL) in oncology. Electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROM) offer advantages over paper questionnaires, but large-scale evidence using smartphone text messaging in clinical trials is limited.

The incidence of bladder cancer (BCa) is rising worldwide. Recent reports suggest a disproportionate increase among younger individuals, raising questions about epidemiologic and genetic contributors to early-onset disease.

Intravesical gemcitabine/docetaxel (Gem/Doce) is an effective therapy for Bacillus Calmette- Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), achieving 50% complete responses at 2 years.

Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) commonly recurs despite intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy. Host factors that modify the effectiveness of BCG have not been completely defined.

Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) comprises ~ 75% of newly diagnosed bladder cancer, with high-risk NMIBC associated with high rates of recurrence and progression. Nearly 40% of patients experience a lack of efficacy with gold standard Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy and current methods for predicting BCG response are limited.

Despite therapy advances, better solutions for refractory bladder cancer remain an unmet need. Human cell-based models may aid in better treatment translation. We introduce 3D-UHU-TU, a bladder cancer microtissue model which incorporates spheroids derived from low- and high-grade human bladder cancer cell lines (RT112 and T24 respectively) into a healthy human urothelium.

(1) To examine 10-yr outcomes of Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy (RARC) with Intracorporeal Ileal Conduit (ICIC) performed by international clinical fellows within a 1-yr RCS-Eng Urothelial Senior Fellowship Programme.

Urothelial bladder cancer exhibits marked molecular and clinical heterogeneity. While genomic and transcriptomic profiling of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) has revealed recurrent alterations with therapeutic and prognostic relevance, limited access to molecular testing constrains clinical use.

Over the last two decades, significant advances in the perioperative management of muscle-invasive bladder cancer, such as enhanced recovery protocols, increased use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, improved care pathways, and stronger multidisciplinary collaboration, have reshaped surgical outcomes.

The potential impact of treatment sequencing in chemoimmunotherapy combinations remains underexplored. We evaluated 2 alternative dosing schedules of chemotherapy (cisplatin and gemcitabine [GC]) and an immune checkpoint inhibitor (CPI; atezolizumab [A]) for metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC).