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MEDICAL NEWS · NATURE MEDICINE · 24 October 2026

Neoadjuvant nivolumab with or without visugromab in muscle-invasive bladder cancer: the phase 2a GDFATHER-NEO trial

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Nature Medicine, Published online: 24 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04740-9 As presented at the ESMO Congress 2026: In this exploratory, nonrandomized phase 2a trial, treatment of patients with immune checkpoint inhibitor-naive muscle-invasive bladder cancer with the GDF-15-neutralizing antibody visugromab and nivolumab produced encouraging pathological complete response and radiographic response rates with no new safety signals, supporting further evaluation in larger randomized studies.

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