Mechanisms of BCG immunotherapy and its outlook for bladder cancer

C Pettenati, MA Ingersoll - Nature reviews urology, 2018 - nature.com
BCG immunotherapy is the gold-standard treatment for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
at high risk of recurrence or progression. Preclinical and clinical studies have revealed that a …

T1 bladder cancer: current considerations for diagnosis and management

B Jordan, JJ Meeks - Nature reviews urology, 2019 - nature.com
Stage T1 bladder cancers invade the lamina propria of the bladder and, despite sharing
many of the genetic features of muscle-invasive bladder cancers, are classified as non …

An integrated multi-omics analysis identifies prognostic molecular subtypes of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

SV Lindskrog, F Prip, P Lamy, A Taber… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The molecular landscape in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is characterized
by large biological heterogeneity with variable clinical outcomes. Here, we perform an …

Adaptive immune resistance to intravesical BCG in non–muscle invasive bladder cancer: Implications for prospective BCG-unresponsive trials

M Kates, A Matoso, W Choi, AS Baras, MJ Daniels… - Clinical cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: To characterize immune cell expression among patients with non–muscle invasive
bladder cancer (NMIBC) treated with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). Experimental Design …

Immune activation is essential for the antitumor activity of EZH2 inhibition in urothelial carcinoma

A Piunti, K Meghani, Y Yu, AG Robertson… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The long-term survival of patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma (UCa) is limited
because of innate resistance to treatment. We identified elevated expression of the histone …

Diagnosis and staging of bladder cancer

H Ahmadi, V Duddalwar… - Hematology/Oncology …, 2021 - hemonc.theclinics.com
Bladder cancer (BCa) is the second most common genitourinary and fourth most common
cancer overall in the United States, with an estimated 81,400 newly diagnosed cases …

Predictive clinico-pathological factors to identify BCG, unresponsive patients, after re-resection for T1 high grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

M Ferro, B Barone, F Crocetto, G Lucarelli… - … Oncology: Seminars and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Seventy-five percent of bladder cancers are non-muscle invasive. The treatment
strategy includes the transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURB) followed by …

Bladder cancer, a unique model to understand cancer immunity and develop immunotherapy approaches

D Song, T Powles, L Shi, L Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the mechanistic understanding of immune checkpoints and success in checkpoint
blockade using antibodies for the treatment of certain cancers, immunotherapy has become …

Endogenous stimuli‐activatable nanomedicine for immune theranostics for cancer

W Wang, Y Jin, X Liu, F Chen, X Zheng… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapy has witnessed significant advances in the past decade, however
challenges associated with immune‐related adverse effects and immunosuppressive tumor …

Immunotherapy for bladder cancer: latest advances and ongoing clinical trials

DF Ward Grados, H Ahmadi, TS Griffith… - Immunological …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
For nearly 50 years, immunotherapy has been used in patients with bladder cancer in the
form of Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), which is still the first-line …