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SUMMARY:Annual Retreat 2024
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SUMMARY:Annual Retreat 2023
DESCRIPTION:The annual International Bladder Cancer Group Retreat was held in Houston\, Texas from August 25-26\,The meeting was co-chaired by Drs. Shilpa Gupta\, Roger Li and Patrick Hensley and convened 60 international bladder cancer clinicians\, scientists\, and patient advocates\, including IBCG representation from 10 countries. This year’s keynote speaker was Ms. Toby Shor\, a bladder cancer survivor and philanthropist\, who remarked on her personal journey from diagnosis through treatment. The 2023 Retreat mission was to generate consensus statements on two disease processes and employed a system of literature review and expert opinion-based recommendation statements with pre-meeting voting from IBCG membership. Recommendations were revised based on discussion\, and final statements underwent live voting at the conclusion of the meeting\, with ratification of statements achieving consensus. Publication of these proceedings are forthcoming. BCG Unresponsive Disease: Recommendations for Optimal Sequencing & Patient\, the group defined existing and emerging therapeutic strategies for BCG unresponsive nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer. The adoption of the BCG unresponsive definition by the IBCG and FDA has been instrumental in patient risk-stratification\, insightful interpretation of retrospective clinical outcomes\, and stimulating the development and evaluation of novel bladder-preserving therapies through clinical trials. The following topics were discussed:Chemotherapy-Based TreatmentsImmunotherapy/Checkpoint InhibitorsGene Therapy-Based AgentsImmunotherapy-Based AgentsTargeted & Miscellaneous TreatmentsBiomarkers for BCG Unresponsive NMIBCDefining the “Window of Safety” Do We Have an “Optimal Agent” for Each Subset of Patients?The second session was titled Bladder Conservation in MIBC: Selecting the Right Patient for Trimodality Therapy\, Partial Cystectomy\, and Observation post NAC/IO” Given the lack of direct clinical trial comparison between bladder preservation techniques and radical cystectomy\, limitations in contemporary clinical staging\, and lack of comparative effectiveness data supporting the use of specific systemic therapy agents and radiation techniques\, real-world utilization of bladder conservation has been limited. However\, due emphasis is being placed on alternatives to the one-size-fits-all approach to neoadjuvant therapy followed by radical cystectomy. The following topics were discussed Trimodality Therapy Partial Cystectomy Radical Transurethral Resection Bladder Preservation After Clinical CR Post-NAC/IO Radical Cystectomy (Comparator) Biomarkers for Bladder Sparing Therapy in MIBC The IBCG leadership is currently finalizing topics for next year’s meeting\, to be held on August 22- 24\, 2024 n Houston\, Texas.
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