Dr. Rosenberg on Frontline Immunotherapy Potential in Bladder Cancer

Jonathan E. Rosenberg, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the potential that immunotherapy has in the frontline setting for patients with bladder cancer.

For some patients, Rosenberg says immunotherapy is clearly going to be a first-choice therapy. However, researchers need to explore whether or not there are benefits to combining immunotherapy with chemotherapy. In many diseases, it hasn’t been beneficial.

However, in bladder cancer, there are chemotherapy regimens who do have high efficacy levels in patients. There may be some synergistic effects, which researchers will need to explore in multiple clinical trials.