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Bladder Cancer Trial Results
1. Combination Treatment Boosts Survival in Biliary Tract Cancers
(Posted: 06/19/2009) - Patients who received the chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and gemcitabine for advanced, inoperable biliary tract cancers lived several months longer than patients who received gemcitabine alone, according to findings presented at the 2009 ASCO meeting in Orlando.
2. Pre-Surgical Chemotherapy May Improve Survival in Bladder Cancer
(Updated: 08/28/2003) - Chemotherapy before surgery nearly doubles survival rates in patients with locally advanced bladder cancer compared to surgery alone, according to a trial reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in San Francisco on May 14.
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