Joseph Jacob, MD, MCR
Articles
Use and Sequencing of Novel Treatments in NMIBC
March 27th 2025Experts discuss where they are using FDA-approved treatments for bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)–unresponsive patients in their practice, how they choose between these treatments, and how these advances have impacted the timing of radical cystectomy for patients.
FDA-Approved Treatments for BCG-Unresponsive NMIBC
March 27th 2025Experts briefly discuss 3 new FDA-approved treatments for patients who are unresponsive to bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) in the last 5 years—pembrolizumab, nogapendekin alfa inbakicept-pmln, and nadofaragene firadenovec—highlighting how each is administered, and share their impressions of the safety and efficacy of these agents.
Other Investigational Drug Delivery Systems in NMIBC
March 20th 2025Experts briefly discuss investigational mitomycin delivery systems UGN-102 and UGN-103, which are being evaluated in intermediate-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), and share their impressions of the safety and efficacy results from the ENVISION phase 3 trial for UGN-102.
TAR-200 Efficacy and Safety in High-Risk BCG- Unresponsive NMIBC (SunRISe-1)
March 13th 2025Experts discuss the patient demographics and clinical trial design of the phase 2b SunRISe-1 study investigating the use of TAR-200 as a monotherapy and in combination with cetrelimab (a PD-1 inhibitor), with results presented at the recent European Society for Medical Oncology 2024 Congress, as well as the safety and efficacy data from the SunRISe-1 trial.
New Intravesical Delivery Systems and TAR-200 in NMIBC
March 6th 2025Experts review different treatment delivery options available for the management of non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), discuss the exciting developments in NMIBC with several delivery systems and agents under investigation, and provide information about TAR-200, a targeted release system utilizing continuous intravesical release of gemcitabine, including how TAR-200 is installed within the bladder.
