More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat ...

A research team is shedding new light on Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a decades-old bladder cancer treatment, which is also given as vaccine against tuberculosis. The findings could help improve ...

What Is BCG Treatment for Bladder Cancer? Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the main immunotherapy used to treat early-stage bladder cancer. Immunotherapy uses your immune system to fight cancer. BCG ...

Anktiva plus BCG aims to treat BCG-unresponsive NMIBC with papillary disease, potentially reducing radical cystectomy need. The treatment showed high rates of surgery avoidance and disease-free ...

LAS VEGAS -- Event-free survival (EFS) in high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) improved significantly when patients received the PD-1 inhibitor sasanlimab in addition to bacillus ...

Cretostimogene monotherapy achieves a 75.5% complete response rate in high-risk, BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients. The treatment maintains a 46% complete response at 12 ...

How can a tuberculosis vaccine also treat cancer—and potentially make other immunotherapies more effective? That’s the question researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Weill ...

Inlexzo is an intravesical gemcitabine releasing system that is inserted directly into the bladder through a urinary catheter. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Inlexzo ™ ...

Following discussions with the U.S. FDA, the Agency recommended that the Company submit additional information for its evaluation of this information to potentially support a resubmission of the sBLA ...

ImmunityBio’s IBRX QUILT-2.005 trial tops enrollment forecasts; BLA filing targeted by year-end after positive ANKTIVA+BCG ...