Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: The feasibility of combined tislelizumab with gemcitabine and cisplatin as a neoadjuvant regimen for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) remains to be investigated.

CASE PRESENTATION: The neoadjuvant treatment not only shrunk tumours significantly but also lowered their stages from T4bN1M0, T3N0M0, and T3bN0M0 to pT1, pT0 and pTis, respectively. The treatment suppressed tumour cell proliferation and promoted luminal-to-basal transition.

CLINICAL DISCUSSION: MIBC is an aggressive bladder cancer with poor prognosis. All three patients with MIBC benefited greatly from the neoadjuvant regimen (tislelizumab + gemcitabine + cisplatin). It appears that the effect of the treatment is independent of the levels of programmed death-ligand 1 nor the subtype of urothelial bladder cancer.

CONCLUSION: Combination of tislelizumab with gemcitabine and cisplatin appeared to be a safe and efficacious neoadjuvant therapy for MIBC.

Publication Title

Annals of Medicine and Surgery (London)

Volume

86

Issue

1

First Page

245

Last Page

251

PubMed ID

38222740

Comments

This article was published in Annals of Medicine and Surgery (2012), Volume 86, Issue 1, pages 245-251.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1097/ms9.0000000000001533.

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