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Thomas Powles’s breakthrough success in treating a deadly bladder cancer could herald the next wave of powerful immunotherapeutic drugs. Thomas Powles’s breakthrough success in treating a deadly bladder cancer could herald the next wave of powerful immunotherapeutic drugs.
An extended lymphadenectomy – removal of additional lymph nodes beyond the extent of the standard procedure – in patients undergoing radical cystectomy (removal of bladder and nearby tissues) because of clinically localized muscle-invasive bladder cancer provides no patient benefit as measured by disease-free survival or overall survival times. It does, however, increase the risk of adverse events (side effects) and post-surgical death. These primary results from the phase 3 SWOG S1011 clinical trial are being delivered in an oral presentation at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Soc...