Immunotherapy uses the power of your immune system to fight your cancer. One type of immunotherapy is called an immune checkpoint inhibitor. Your immune system has built-in checkpoints that help it ...

COPENHAGEN — More evidence that immunotherapy with programmed cell death (PD) inhibitors is effective in bladder cancer was presented here today at the 2016 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO ...

In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Vadim Koshkin, MD, of the University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the latest updates, including the ...

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 ...

Patients with advanced bladder cancer have significantly less risk of the disease progressing or returning when treated with an immunotherapy drug called durvalumab, research has shown. Jörg ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for a new immunotherapy treatment for advanced stages of the most common type of bladder cancer — urothelial carcinoma — the agency announced ...

Neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy followed by radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection has been the standard of care for muscle-invasive bladder cancer for decades. The advent of ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved nogapendekin alfa inbakicept (Anktiva, ImmunityBio) for use in adults with carcinoma in situ (CIS) non-muscle-invasive ...

Instead, he chose to be the first person in Texas to try Inlexzo. Inlexzo is a chemotherapy that comes in a tube that looks ...

Cancer’s cruelest trick is its ability to disappear, only to reappear years later in a new organ or a familiar scar. The fear ...