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• Randomized Phase III Trial of Dose-dense Methotrexate, Vinblastine, Doxorubicin, and Cisplatin, or Gemcitabine and Cisplatin as Perioperative Chemotherapy for Patients with Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer. Analysis of the GETUG/AFU V05 VESPER Trial Secondary Endpoints: Chemotherapy Toxicity and Pathological Responses.

  Pfister C, Gravis G, Fléchon A, Soulié M, Guy L, Laguerre B, Mottet N, Joly F, Allory Y, Harter V, Culine S; VESPER Trial Investigators. Pfister C, et al. Eur Urol. 2021 Feb;79(2):214-221. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.08.024. Epub 2020 Aug 28. Eur Urol. 2021. PMID: 32868138 Clinical Trial.
• Pembrolizumab monotherapy for the treatment of high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer unresponsive to BCG (KEYNOTE-057): an open-label, single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 study.

  Balar AV, Kamat AM, Kulkarni GS, Uchio EM, Boormans JL, Roumiguié M, Krieger LEM, Singer EA, Bajorin DF, Grivas P, Seo HK, Nishiyama H, Konety BR, Li H, Nam K, Kapadia E, Frenkl T, de Wit R. Balar AV, et al. Lancet Oncol. 2021 Jul;22(7):919-930. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00147-9. Epub 2021 May 26. Lancet Oncol. 2021. PMID: 34051177 Clinical Trial.
• ctDNA guiding adjuvant immunotherapy in urothelial carcinoma.

  Powles T, Assaf ZJ, Davarpanah N, Banchereau R, Szabados BE, Yuen KC, Grivas P, Hussain M, Oudard S, Gschwend JE, Albers P, Castellano D, Nishiyama H, Daneshmand S, Sharma S, Zimmermann BG, Sethi H, Aleshin A, Perdicchio M, Zhang J, Shames DS, Degaonkar V, Shen X, Carter C, Bais C, Bellmunt J, Mariathasan S. Powles T, et al. Nature. 2021 Jul;595(7867):432-437. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03642-9. Epub 2021 Jun 16. Nature. 2021. PMID: 34135506 Clinical Trial.
• An N-Cadherin 2 expressing epithelial cell subpopulation predicts response to surgery, chemotherapy and immunotherapy in bladder cancer.

  Gouin KH 3rd, Ing N, Plummer JT, Rosser CJ, Ben Cheikh B, Oh C, Chen SS, Chan KS, Furuya H, Tourtellotte WG, Knott SRV, Theodorescu D. Gouin KH 3rd, et al. Nat Commun. 2021 Aug 12;12(1):4906. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25103-7. Nat Commun. 2021. PMID: 34385456 Free PMC article.