Sentences with phrase «advanced bladder cancer patients»
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Removal of the bladder, or radical cystectomy (RC), is an effective treatment for locally advanced bladder cancer, but complications occur in as many as 66 % of patients.
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It represents a real advance in the second - line treatment of advanced bladder cancer because pembrolizumab is the first therapy to show a significant survival advantage over chemotherapy for these patients.
«Nivolumab immunotherapy helps patients with advanced bladder cancer.»
Based primarily on clinical trials led by Arjun V. Balar, MD, assistant professor of medicine and director of the Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program, the FDA approved atezolizumab (Tecentriq ®) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda ®) as first - line treatments for these particularly frail patients with advanced bladder cancer in early 2017.