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In a medically inoperable, elderly, frail patient with muscle invasive, node negative bladder cancer, would you consider combining immunotherapy with radiotherapy instead of chemotherapy?

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Radiation Oncology · Massachusetts General Hospital
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Maybe but what about using low dose Gemcitabine ( 27mg/M2 twice weekly) with daily XRT as in NEG 0712?

This seems much better to me!

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Radiation Oncology · Radiation Oncology of Atlanta
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Now in 2021, with evidence of activity of immunotherapy in MIBC, how would you manage an otherwise healthy older (>70) patient with elevated creatinine, not a candidate for cisplatin?

Would you still advise Gem? Or consider 5-FU/mitomycin, or perhaps IO therapy followed by chemo-RT or IO-RT?

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