Bladder Cancer

Preliminary results also showed encouraging overall survival data, said Arjun V. Balar, MD, Co-Leader of the Genitourinary Cancers Program, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, who presented the results.

The study included 2 main comparisons of adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus radiation and adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus chemotherapy alone. The 3-year disease-free survival rate was 68% for adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus 63% for radiation alone, but this 5% difference was not statistically significant. The 3-year disease-free survival rate in the second comparison was 68% for chemoradiotherapy versus 56% for chemotherapy alone, a numerical trend toward improved survival with chemoradiotherapy.