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Hospital de Aveiro starts applying new therapy for bladder cancers

NotíciasdeAveiro.pt28 August 2026 at 17:12

The Medical Oncology Service at Hospital de Aveiro performed last week its first treatment with the combination of pembrolizumab and enfortumab vedotin in a patient with advanced bladder cancer. The use of this therapy was made possible after the recent approval of funding by INFARMED and the subsequent authorization by the Local Health Unit of the Aveiro Region.

The availability of this treatment constitutes an important reinforcement of the differentiated response to advanced bladder cancer in the Aveiro region, allowing patients to have access, closer to their place of residence, to innovative therapeutic options supported by scientific evidence.

The therapeutic decision was integrated into the work developed by the Multidisciplinary Urological Oncology Group of the ULS of the Aveiro Region, which brings together professionals from Medical Oncology, Radiotherapy, Pharmacy, Urology, Radiology, Palliative Care, Nutrition and Pathological Anatomy. The articulated intervention of these different areas allows a multidisciplinary assessment of each patient and the definition of individualized therapeutic strategies.

The new therapeutic option reinforces the commitment to proximity, differentiated oncology based on precision medicine, promoting access for patients in the region to treatments based on the best available scientific evidence.

O Serviço de Oncologia Médica do Hospital de Aveiro realizou, na semana passada, o seu primeiro tratamento com a combinação de pembrolizumab e enfortumab vedotina, num doente com cancro da bexiga avançado.

“A utilização desta terapêutica foi possível após a recente aprovação do respetivo financiamento pelo INFARMED, e a subsequente autorização pela Unidade Local de Saúde da Região de Aveiro (ULS RA)”, informa um comunicado.

“A disponibilização do tratamento constitui um importante reforço da resposta diferenciada” em Aveiro “ao cancro da bexiga avançado, permitindo que os doentes da região tenham acesso, mais próximo do seu local de residência, a opções terapêuticas inovadoras e sustentadas pela evidência científica.”

Segundo a nota de imprensa, a decisão terapêutica foi integrada no trabalho desenvolvido pelo ‘Grupo Multidisciplinar de Oncologia Urológica da ULS da Região de Aveiro’, que reúne profissionais de Oncologia Médica, Radioterapia, Farmácia, Urologia, Radiologia, Cuidados Paliativos, Nutrição e Anatomia Patológica.

“A intervenção articulada destas diferentes áreas permite uma avaliação multidisciplinar de cada doente e a definição de estratégias terapêuticas individualizadas, tendo em consideração as características da doença e as necessidades específicas de cada utente”, explica a ULS RA.

A nova opção terapêutica “reforça a aposta numa oncologia de proximidade, diferenciada e assente na medicina de precisão, promovendo o acesso dos doentes da região a cuidados e tratamentos cada vez mais diferenciados”, reafirmando, assim, “o compromisso com a inovação, a qualidade e a melhoria contínua dos cuidados prestados às pessoas com doença oncológica, valorizando o trabalho multidisciplinar e a adoção de terapêuticas baseadas na melhor evidência científica disponível.”

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