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Paul Crispen MD

UF Health Urologists Working to Expand Options for BCG-Unresponsive Bladder Cancer

“Other treatments in the bladder are typically administered once a week for six weeks,” Crispen said. “Offering longer intervals between treatments is favorable for these patients, leading to fewer office visits, co-pays, catheterizations and everything else that goes along with the process.” If successful, Crispen said new treatment agents may even replace intravesical BCG as the primary therapy for high-risk NMIBC. BCG treatments are highly toxic, with potentially serious complications; in fact, fewer than 20% of patients are able to tolerate all doses of BCG maintenance therapy.

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September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month!

As prostate cancer is the most common genitourinary cancer treated by a urologist and by far the most visible cancer from the standpoint of public awareness, our UF Health Urology team members are doing their part to increase awareness of this challenging disease by wearing a light blue ribbon lapel pin throughout the duration of the month of September.