Rebouissou et al. recently provided preclinical evidence that a subset of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer might benefit from anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy and reported diagnostic tools for identifying these patients in the clinical setting. This work also identified relevant experimental models that may be useful for future basic and clinical research on this subgroup of tumors.
Keywords: EGFR; TP53; basal like; bladder carcinoma; epithelial basal cell gene; muscle invasive bladder cancer; retinoblastoma.