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Bladder cancer

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Burden-over-time charts — how many people this disease affects and whether that number is rising or falling — are coming to this page. The treatability read, milestones, and live trial pipeline below are current.

Milestones

dot size = significance
199020002010202020252019 — Erdafitinib approved (FDA)
2019: Drug approval — Erdafitinib approved (FDA)

What's being tested now

2002: 1 trials started2009: 3 trials started2011: 1 trials started2013: 4 trials started2014: 2 trials started2015: 4 trials started2016: 5 trials started2017: 5 trials started2018: 13 trials started2019: 16 trials started2020: 19 trials started2021: 29 trials started2022: 34 trials started2023: 62 trials started2024: 78 trials started2025: 120 trials started2026: 87 trials started201020202026120

Trials started per year, stacked by phase (darker = later phase). Source: ClinicalTrials.gov via Clin2, which tracks studies recruiting in recent years — early years undercount.

See all 470 active Bladder Cancer trials on Clin2 →

Related

Burden estimates: IHME Global Burden of Disease Study. Drug indications: ChEMBL (CC BY-SA). Trial data: ClinicalTrials.gov via Clin2. Velocity, acceleration, and turning points are computed by Clin2 — how this page is made. Treatability describes what medicine can do, not what is available everywhere. This page describes populations, not people, and is not medical advice.