There’s a new twist in the fight against bladder cancer — and it’s delivering game-changing results.

In a recent clinical trial , a pretzel-shaped device that slowly releases chemotherapy drugs directly into the bladder eliminated tumors in 82% of patients whose cancer had resisted standard treatment.

For most, the cancer vanished within three months, and nearly half remained disease-free a year later. 3

Dr. Sia Daneshmand , director of urologic oncology with Keck Medicine of USC and lead author of a study, said called the finding a “breakthrough” in how certain types of bladder cancer might be treated.

Each year, more than 80,000 people in the US are diagnosed with bladder cancer.

The most common type is non-muscle-invasive, where the disease remains in the bladder’s lining

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