ASCO 2024 results of a multicenter phase II trial of modified FOLFIRINOX for the first-line treatment of advanced urachal cancer (ULTMA; KCSG GU20-03), Urachal cancer is a rare malignancy accounting for 1% of bladder cancers.
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A new type of drug that helps target chemotherapy directly to cancer cells has been found to significantly increase survival of patients with the most common form of bladder cancer, according to results from a phase III clinical trial led in the UK by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust.
The results are published in the
New England Journal of Medicine and were presented at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology s Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.
Urothelial cancer is the most common type of bladder cancer (90 percent of cases) and can also be found in the renal pelvis (where urine collects inside the kidney), ureter (tube that connects the kidneys to the bladder) and urethra. Globally, approximately 549,000 new cases of bladder cancer and 200,000 deaths are reported annually.