A shortfall in knowledge in the use of biomarkers and patient-related factors for the personalization of treatment for patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma was identified in the baseline data collected from i3 Health's continuing medical education (CME)–approved visiting faculty meeting series titled New Thinking, New Strategies in Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma, led by Arjun V. Balar, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program at NYU Lan...

The FDA has approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda®, Merck) for the treatment of patients with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) carcinoma in situ, with or without papillary tumors. Pembrolizumab, a programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitor, is indicated for patients who are ineligible for or have elected not to receive radical cystectomy and who do not respond to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy. The approval was based on Keynote 057 (NCT02625961), a multicenter, singl...