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New Podcast: Contemporary BCG Side Effect Management

Fred Witjes, oncological urologist at the Radbound University Nijmegen (NL), talks in this half-hour podcast about the management of side effects that follow BCG

Main topics of the podcast are insights into the management of side effects that follow Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG). Fred Witjes dives into the absolute and relative contraindications for BCG instillation and explores some of the real-world reasons for BCG treatment discontinuation.

Furthermore, he explains in detail what the signs are, that clinicians should look out for treating patients – and he gives a lot of hints to procedures that can be followed to reduce adverse events after BCG.

Here you find an overview about the topics that Fred Witjes is talking about:

• how to increase the confidence of urologists regarding BCG side effect management
• how to make adequate use of the major drug classes used in the management of BCG side effects to improve patient’s quality of life and treatment compliance
• how to reduce the rate of BCG-related treatment discontinuation
• how to decide if a switch of treatment is necessary