by lisaghisolfsandbox | Jun 13, 2020
Bladder cancer has been well known as immunotherapy-responsive disease as intravesical therapy with BCG has been the standard of care for non-muscle invasive disease for several decades. In addition, immune checkpoint inhibitors have dramatically changed the treatment...
by lisaghisolfsandbox | Oct 24, 2019
Urothelial bladder cancer is the most common malignancy of the urinary tract resulting in over 165,000 deaths worldwide. Immunotherapies targeting the programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) checkpoint pathway were recently approved for the treatment of bladder cancer,...
by lisaghisolfsandbox | Nov 9, 2016
Review Urothelial bladder cancer is one of the first cancers recognized to be immunogenic since 40 years ago when the use of bacillus Calmette-Guerin was shown to prevent recurrence. Since that time, our knowledge of immune biology of cancer has expanded tremendously,...
