Critical Unmet Needs for Patients with MIBC

Mark D. Tyson, II, MD, MPH, discussed treatment with cretostimogene grenadenorepvec in high-risk Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with carcinoma in situ and data from the BOND-003 trial.

Vikram Narayan, MD, discussed the durable clinical activity observed with nadofaragene firadenovec in the CS-003 trial for patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Combining durvalumab with chemotherapy in the NIAGARA trial led to significant improvements in event-free survival and overall survival for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

In this feature article, key opinion leaders look at the burgeoning use of ctDNA to dictate treatment approaches for patients with bladder cancer.

Recent data, trials, approvals, and presentations during the 2024 American Urological Association Annual Meeting paint a positive treatment landscape for patients with metastatic and non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

A high complete response rate was achieved in patients with BCG–unresponsive NMIBC using the combination of cretostimogene grenadenorepvec and pembrolizumab, according to final phase 2 CORE-001 trial results.