Treatment Strategy Helps People With Advanced Bladder Cancer Retain the Organ

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Cabelis' self-declared bias has to do with his years-long involvement in testing a first-of-its kind treatment for bladder cancer. The experimental treatment is now the subject of ongoing studies at multiple U.S. medical centers.

, that's what I had, and then I had this treatment, and it was the most amazing experience. And thank God, now I'm clean, I'm-free.

Enter researchers from Mount Sinai, the City of Hope, the Universities of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Southern California and Utah, and Oregon Health & Sciences University.The goal was to evaluate a combination chemotherapy/immunotherapy treatment while leaving the bladder itself intact. “A few months later they went back with a camera to see what was happening, and I was clean," Cabelis said. "Then they asked me if I wanted to continue with the trial. And of course, I said yes! I took my chances. I went all the way.”

Galsky said side effects of the experimental treatment appear to be in line with those of standard chemo and/or immunotherapy treatment when bladder cancer has spread.

 

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