The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted expedited approval to UroGen Pharma’s Jelmyto (mitomycin) for pyelocaliceal solution for adults with low-grade upper tract urothelial cancer (LG UTUC) on the basis of data from the Phase III OLYMPUS trial.

AstraZeneca’s treatment options for Stage IV (metastatic) bladder cancer failed to hit the mark of improving overall survival in a Phase III trial.

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The bladder cancer drug Padcev, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December, secured Breakthrough Therapy designation for the treatment of patients with another type of bladder cancer.

Roche company Genentech announced that the Phase III IMvigor010 trial of Tecentriq as a post-surgery monotherapy did not hit the primary endpoint in muscle-invasive urothelial cancer (MIUC).

The U.S. FDA approved Merck & Co. Inc.’s Keytruda for a hard-to-treat form of bladder cancer, making the blockbuster therapy the first new treatment for the cancer in more than two decades.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Astellas Pharma Inc. and Seattle Genetics Inc.’s experimental drug Padcev to treat advanced bladder cancer, about three months ahead of schedule.

The Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted 9-4 in favor of recommending Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda for the treatment of certain patients with high-risk, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

FerGene reported that the gene therapy company’s Phase III trial of nadofaragene firadenovec (rAd-IFN/Syn3) met the primary endpoint for the treatment of high-grade, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Blackstone Group Inc. is investing $400 million in a joint venture with Swiss drug company Ferring that is working on an experimental gene therapy for bladder cancer, the private equity giant’s largest-ever bet on drug development.