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Complete Response With Immunotherapy: A Case of Metastatic Bladder Cancer

Bladder cancer is the most common urinary tract malignancy. Platinum-based chemotherapy is the first line of treatment in locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer. Immunotherapy has become a novel therapy option in a broad variety of malignancies including bladder cancer. Immunotherapy is appro...

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Autores principales: Singh, Balraj, Kaur, Parminder, Gupta, Sachin, Guragai, Nirmal, Maroules, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8317233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34308703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096211035603
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Sumario:Bladder cancer is the most common urinary tract malignancy. Platinum-based chemotherapy is the first line of treatment in locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer. Immunotherapy has become a novel therapy option in a broad variety of malignancies including bladder cancer. Immunotherapy is approved as first line of treatment in patients who are ineligible for platinum-based chemotherapy and second-line treatment for metastatic urothelial cancer who progressed after platinum-based treatments. We present the case of an 83-year-old female with metastatic bladder cancer who was chemotherapy ineligible and had complete response with immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab.