A HALF-HOUR scan could help bladder cancer patients be treated almost twice as fast, a groundbreaking study has found. Using an MRI check to help tackle tumours — instead of invasive surgery — cut

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Medical experts in Sheffield have hailed as a "game changer" trials of a drug that could reduce the recurrence of bladder cancer. Using the immunotherapy drug durvalumab before and after surgery reduced the recurrence of operable bladder cancer by a third,

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Overall survival at two years was 82.2% in the durvalumab group and 75.2% in the comparator group. Durvalumab (brand name Imfinzi) is a treatment for non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) but is also being trialled in other cancers.

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The study found that patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer had significantly less risk of cancer progressing or returning when treated with immunosurpressant drug durvalumab, and were more likely to still be alive two years after treatment.

Patients with suspected new bladder cancer were randomly assigned 1:1 to transurethral resection of bladder tumor or mpMRI-staged care.

They hope it will be approved by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to become the new standard of care. James Douglas, consultant urologist at Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital said: "Cancer of the bladder involves abnormal growths that can cause symptoms both within the bladder and beyond if it spreads around the body.

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