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Paul Crispen MD

Dr. Benidir Honored

Cheers to the New Year is an annual event hosted by the UF Health Cancer Institute to acknowledge and honor the outstanding work of those involved in cancer care. Cheers is an opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments of the previous year and – most importantly – to acknowledge key…

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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