Oncology Peer Review On-The-Go: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Elderly Patients with Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

CancerNetwork® spoke with Jun Gong, MD, a practicing medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of genitourinary cancers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, regarding a perspective piece he wrote titled, “Cisplatin Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in an Aging Population With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer.”

Gong’s perspective analyzes and builds upon a study featured in the January issue of ONCOLOGY® titled, “Use of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Elderly Patients With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Population-Based Study, 2006-2017.”

In this conversation, Gong provided an overview of the research and touched on some of the clinically relevant findings. He then expanded on the use of cisplatin-based chemotherapy in an aging population, how age fits into the treatment equation, and where research should focus moving forward in muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

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