UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM IMAGE: JAMES “JED” FERGUSON III CREDIT: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Metastatic bladder cancer is generally incurable, so new therapies are an urgent need. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham now report a potential treatment for a quarter of bladder cancers. Their discovery, published in the journal JCI Insight, comes from...
UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER IMAGE: UNC LINEBERGER’S WILLIAM KIM, MD, AND COLLEAGUES REPORT THEIR RESEARCH DEMONSTRATED THAT PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED BLADDER CANCERS WHOSE TUMORS HAVE A MUTATED FGFR3 GENE RESPOND TO IMMUNOTHERAPY IN A MANNER THAT IS SIMILAR TO PATIENTS WITHOUT THAT MUTATION. THIS DISCOVERY RUNS COUNTER TO PREVIOUS RESEARCH THAT SUGGESTED FGFR3-MUTATED BLADDER...
