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We are excited to bring new and updated information to share through our Bladder Cancer Video Library.


For this video series, we are pleased to work with Dr. Shilpa Gupta, Director of the Genitourinary Medical Oncology at TCI and Co-Leader of the Genitourinary Oncology Program at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Petros Grivas, Oncologist with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, UW Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Dr. Jason Brown, Medical Oncologist at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.


In this video, Dr. Jason Brown explains what a biomarker is, and why they are important in cancer.


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