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 ...

Although bladder cancer ranks as the sixth most common cancer in the United States, with approximately 85,000 new cases diagnosed each year, it continues to receive limited awareness, advocacy, and ...

Researchers from the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center are part of an international team ...

The American Cancer Society estimates that over 80,000 individuals will be diagnosed with bladder cancer this year. Unfortunately, in the same year, it is estimated that over 15,000 deaths will be ...

Bladder cancer arises from the lining of the bladder, the organ that stores urine, and is one of the most common cancers in ...

About one quarter of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) may be treated and derive a benefit with the current standard chemotherapy. To better understand why some tumors resist ...

HOUSTON – July 16, 2025 – Chemotherapy used to target and kill bladder cancer cells may trigger an inflammatory response that ultimately may make the cancer more resistant to treatment, according to ...

More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat ...

What Is Zusduri Used For? Zusduri is used to treat a certain type of recurrent, persistent bladder cancer known as LG-IR-NMIBC. About 75% of people with bladder cancer present with non-muscle invasive ...

Bladder cancer patients who run out of options often face a grim choice: life-altering surgery to remove the bladder, or living with a disease that might kill them if it spreads to the rest of the ...

Although chemotherapy is one of the go-to methods for fighting cancer, it often fails. New research published this week has revealed ways to potentially make cancer treatment more effective. For ...

The extent of the bladder cancer — how far it has spread — matters. Your care team needs to know if your cancer sits on or in the first lining of your bladder (non-muscle invasive), if it goes into ...