Combination intravesical chemotherapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) as first-line or rescue therapy : where do we stand now?

INTRODUCTION: The combination of intravesical gemcitabine (Gem) with docetaxel (Doce) or with mitomycin C (MMC) has been used in the primary setting as an alternative to Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) to treat high-risk (HR) and intermediate-risk (IR) non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), as well in the rescue setting for patients in whom BCG has failed.

AREA COVERED: Efficacy and safety of Gem/Doce and Gem/MMC to treat NMIBC in BCG-naive and failure settings.

EXPERT OPINION: In the BCG-naive setting, Gem/Doce was the primary alternative combination therapy reported, with a weighted mean of 12- and 24-month recurrence-free survival (RFS) of 79% and 77% for HR disease and 84% and 76% for IR disease, respectively. In the HR BCG-failure setting, the weighted mean of 12- and 24-month RFS was 60% and 42% for Gem/Doce and 63% and 40% for Gem/MMC. While patients without BCG exposure and papillary disease only benefit the most from Gem/Doce, there is also reasonable efficacy in BCG refractory disease and CIS. Combination therapy is well tolerated, with grade III toxicity reported in less than 1% of patients. Unlike single-agent chemotherapy, intravesical Gem/Doce is considered effective and safe regardless of risk-stratification.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy - 25(2024), 2 vom: 23. Feb., Seite 203-214

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Abou Chakra, Mohamad [VerfasserIn]
Packiam, Vignesh T [VerfasserIn]
Duquesne, Igor [VerfasserIn]
Peyromaure, Michael [VerfasserIn]
McElree, Ian M [VerfasserIn]
O'Donnell, Michael A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

15H5577CQD
50SG953SK6
Adjuvants, Immunologic
BCG Vaccine
BCG failure
BCG naive
Bladder cancer
Docetaxel
Gemcitabine
Intravesical
Journal Article
Mitomycin
Mitomycin C
Non-muscle invasive
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.03.2024

Date Revised 03.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/14656566.2024.2310073

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367552825