When a doctor suspects bladder cancer, they will order a series of tests which may include urine tests (urinalysis or urine cytology), a cystoscopy to visualize the inside of the bladder, and/or a CT ...

As a potential biomarker of treatment response, ctDNA and utDNA analyses were performed before systemic therapy, at restaging, and for responders at the beginning of adjuvant nivolumab. ctDNA was ...

Circulating tumor DNA, or ctDNA, can predict metastatic risk in patients who receive bladder-sparing treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, but it is not a good predictor of local recurrence ...

Signatera detects molecular residual disease in bladder cancer by identifying tumor DNA fragments in the bloodstream, even when not visible on scans. The IMvigor010 trial showed that Signatera-guided ...

A non-invasive, high-accuracy surveillance test for bladder cancer has the potential to improve patient experience, streamline workflows, and reduce overall cost of care” — Megann Vaughn Watters, Vice ...

New research indicates that about one-quarter of patients with bladder cancer treated with radical surgery on curative intent have detectable levels of tumour cells circulating in their blood. The ...

Explore new findings on bladder cancer and inflammation's role in immune suppression. Discover insights to improve treatment.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center have discovered a biological pathway that helps explain why some bladder cancers do not respond well ...

Randomized study aims to reduce treatment burden for patients and utilizes Signatera to monitor for disease recurrence AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Natera, Inc. (NTRA) (NASDAQ: NTRA), a global ...

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 ...