Nearly 20,000 women are diagnosed with bladder cancer each year, according to the American Cancer Society, with most being over age 55. And the unfortunate reality is that women are often diagnosed at ...

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Scientists uncovered how childhood BK virus infections may set off cancer-causing mutations decades later: by activating a host immune system enzyme that attacks DNA. When you purchase through links ...

Tackling a common childhood virus could open the door to preventing bladder cancer, according to new research funded by Kidney Research UK and York Against Cancer. The study, published in Science ...

Tackling a common childhood virus could open the door to preventing bladder cancer, according to new research. The study, published in Science Advances by Dr. Simon Baker and colleagues at the ...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder is rare, accounting for 2% to 5% of bladder cancers in the U.S., and is linked to chronic bladder irritation. Diagnosis involves cystoscopy, biopsy, and imaging ...

The FDA has approved Pfizer and Astellas’ Padcev (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) plus Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a perioperative treatment for adults with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are ...

Recurrences of low-, intermediate-, or high-/very high-risk tumors were again low, intermediate, or high risk in 74%, 62%, and 44% of cases, respectively. Recurrent non-muscle invasive bladder cancer ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Bladder cancer hits men especially hard. The ...

Cancer patients who quit smoking had a two-year survival rate of about 85%, compared with 74% for those who kept smoking. Among patients with advanced-stage (stage III/IV) cancer who smoked, those who ...

An experimental treatment method has shown promise in fighting a hard-to-treat form of bladder cancer known as BCG-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). BCG (Bacillus ...