Results from a large phase III clinical trial show that treatment with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) may nearly double the length of time people with high-risk muscle-invasive bladder cancer are cancer-free following surgical removal of the bladder.
Exploratory analyses of the POTOMAC phase III trial showed adding one year of treatment with AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) to BCG induction and maintenance therapy reduced the number of high-risk disease recurrences within the first year, with fewer BCG-unresponsive recurrences in patients with BCG-naïve, high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer compared to BCG treatment alone.
