About this event

  • Date and time Tue 30 Sep 2025 from 8:30am to 4:45pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Oncology

Bladder cancer treatment is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by advances in diagnostics, novel therapies, and evolving treatment strategies. Innovations such as liquid biomarkers and MRI are enhancing diagnostic precision, while new drug classes are expanding options for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and metastatic disease. 

This event will provide a comprehensive overview of these groundbreaking changes and their implications for clinical practice.

By attending this meeting, you will

  • Gain insight into newly developed therapies for NMIBC and their potential to redefine oncological practice
  • Build your understanding on the current advancements and anticipated future developments in bladder cancer diagnostics, including the use of both liquid and imaging biomarkers
  • Explore evolving therapeutic strategies across the spectrum of bladder cancer, including metastatic disease, perioperative treatment, and bladder preservation in MIBC

This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with leading experts in urologic oncology, explore the latest evidence-based advances, and prepare for the next chapter in bladder cancer care. 

 

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Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 18 August 2025.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£77.00 £46.00 £46.00 £46.00 £24.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£141.00 £84.00 £84.00 £44.00

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome

Professor Nick James, Professor of Prostate and Bladder Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London

The changing diagnostic pathway and NMIBC vs MIBC – the BladderPath trial interpreting MRI and possible role as a biomarker

Speaker to be confirmed

Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer – current standard of care for high risk disease and how is this changing with new agents?

Speaker to be confirmed

How should we integrate and evaluate new therapies in NMIBC and what is the reference standard?

Panel discussion

Tea and coffee break
How will liquid biomarkers change the management of patients

Professor Rik Bryan, University of Birmingham

Bladder preservation with radiotherapy as part of core treatment

Speaker to be confirmed

Can we move to bladder preservation with no radiation?

Speaker to be confirmed

Is there still a role for surgery?

Professor Jim Catto, University of Sheffield

Is systemic therapy now good enough to omit surgery and radiotherapy for some patients?

Panel discussion

Sylvia Lawler Prize presentations
Lunch

AGM for section members only

Introduction - the changing landscape of systemic therapy for muscle invasive bladder cancer

Professor Jim Catto, University of Sheffield 

Imaging in MIBC – role of MRI and PE

Speaker to be confirmed

Systemic therapy – a rapidly changing landscape

Professor Tom Powles, Barts Cancer Institute

Neoadjuvant therapy – how should we assess new agents

Professor Syed Hussain, University of Sheffield

How will liquid biomarkers change the management of patients

Professor Rik Bryan, University of Birmingham

Panel discussion
Audience Q&A and discussion – biomarkers, role of MRI, new systemic therapies, peri-operative treatment
Close of day

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

 

Registration for this event will close at 1:00 am on Monday 29 September 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in the future on various Internet channels.

While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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