Video of Trinity J Bivalacqua,  MD, PhD, on how to treat  patients during the BCG shortage

How to Treat Patients During the BCG Shortage

Trinity J. Bivalacqua, MD, PhD, Professor of Urology and Oncology at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania on the guidelines and use of BCG during the BCG shortage.

Transcript: The AUA and the SUO have come out with a number of, what I would call, white papers to help advise urologists as to what to do with patients that they would normally give BCG to during the BCG shortage. So for example, we no longer give BCG to patients with intermediate risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, which is patients with low grade papillary disease. We now predominantly use intravesical chemotherapy and we reserve BCG for patients with high grade T1 disease and CIS.