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What is your approach to a patient with muscle invasive bladder cancer getting neoadjuvant gemcitabine/cisplatin who develops significant ototoxicity due to cisplatin after two cycles?

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Medical Oncology · Providence Hospital and Medical Centers

My approach would be to proceed to surgery and based on pathological response, determine if the patient is a candidate for nivolumab.

For patients who cannot tolerate cisplatin, there is no recommendation for an alternate regimen in the neoadjuvant setting.

If treatment-naive and cisplatin-ineligible ...

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