“PADCEV™ Plus Keytruda® Significantly Improves Survival for Patients with Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Regardless of Cisplatin Eligibility,” by Astellas Pharma Inc. News release; Dec. 17, 2025.

Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is a precursor that, when caught early, can give patients an incredibly favorable prognosis.

Background A healthy, parous, nonsmoking, 36-year-old woman consulted her gynecologist for nonspecific bladder pain. Urinary tract infection was ruled out. Vaginal ultrasonography and MRI revealed an ...

Objective: To raise awareness of pseudo-tumours of urinary tract, as pseudo-tumours represent benign mass lesions simulating malignant neoplasms. Accurate diagnosis helps to avoid unnecessary surgery ...

Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is cancer that’s only in the inner lining of your bladder. It hasn’t grown into the muscle wall. Your doctor may also call it superficial bladder cancer, urothelial ...

BCG stands for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin. It's a vaccine which is a type of immunotherapy medicine. You usually have BCG into the bladder if you have a high risk of non muscle invasive bladder cancer ...

Chemotherapy into the bladder is a treatment for non muscle invasive bladder cancer. Chemotherapy is an anti cancer (cytotoxic) drug which destroys cancer cells. You have it through a flexible tube ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The words of the 14th-century English philosopher, William of Ockham, have classically implored physicians to ...

The bladder is the hollow organ in the lower abdomen that stores urine. As the bladder fills, muscles in its walls relax so that it can expand. As the bladder empties during urination, the muscles ...