Active clinical trials for "Urinary Bladder Neoplasms"

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and activity of VAX014 for Instillation (VAX014) in patients with low-grade Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC). VAX014 is a targeted oncolytic agent designed to kill tumor cells following instillation into the urinary bladder.

This phase II trial studies the side effects of pembrolizumab and to see how well it works in treating patients with bladder cancer who are undergoing surgery to remove the bladder. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.

Study design: This was a single center, parallel arm, randomized, controlled trial done at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital,Institute Of Medicine from May 2017 to April 2018. The allocation ratio was 1:1. Inclusion criteria: All patients undergoing Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor for suspected bladder tumors. Exclusion criteria were: Consent withdrawal, bladder tumour other than in the lateral wall, unfit for spinal anesthesia and need of general anesthesia or obturator nerve block. Methodology: All patients suspected to have bladder cancer were subjected to imaging or cystoscopy and with confirmation of the diagnosis; they were randomized into two arms of TURBT. Spinal anesthesia was used in all cases. To overcome the potential confounding effect on our primary end point, obturator jerk, nerve block was not used. Cystoscopy was done first and the findings were noted before proceeding to TURBT. Tumors were resected in block from periphery to center with the stalk resected last. An additional sample of deep muscle was obtained from the tumor base and sent for histopathological examination in different containers. All study variables were recorded in Per forma during the operation and in post operative period. Hemoglobin and sodium level was determined in immediate post operative period. Postoperative irrigation was done with normal saline in both the resection groups and continued till the urine was clear. The catheter was removed after 48 hours in uncomplicated cases and patients were discharged. Patients were followed up in OPD at 2 weeks with the

To determine the efficacy of oral APL-1202 administered consecutively for 12 weeks in subjects with high-risk NMIBC relapsed from intravesical chemo/BCG therapy based on the recurrence-free rate (RFR) at 12 months after APL-1202 treatment.

A two-phase study design will be used for this pilot study. In the first phase, a 2×2 crossover study will be used to evaluate the safety, tolerability and PK characteristic of APL-1202 and APL-1501 ER Tablets 3. Twelve healthy subjects will be in ratio 1:1 randomly assigned to two groups, randomization will be stratified by gender (male, female) in ratio 1:1. Each group will be dosed with APL-1202, APL-1501 ER Tablets 3 in a cross-over way. A 7-day (±1 day) washout will be required before next period of drug administration. The samples in first phase will be sent to bioanalysis lab for PK research at the end of first phase. The initiate of second phase will depend on the results of first phase within 30 days and not less than 7 days after the first phase.

Phase I exploratory, open-label, single arm, multicenter study to assess safety, tolerability and antitumor activity of ONCOFID-P-B™ therapy in adult patients with histologically confirmed diagnosis of bladder carcinoma in situ (CIS), who were unresponsive or intolerant to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-therapy. Patients are initially treated with 12 weekly intravesical instillations of ONCOFID-P-B™ (intensive treatment phase). Patients who achieve a complete response (CR) after the 12 weekly instillations entered the maintenance phase of the study, during which ONCOFID-P-B™ is furtherly administered once a month for 12 months.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin and gemcitabine hydrochloride, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Vandetanib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor. It is not yet known whether giving carboplatin and gemcitabine hydrochloride is more effective with or without vandetanib as first-line therapy in treating urinary tract cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying giving carboplatin together with gemcitabine hydrochloride and to see how well it works when given with or without vandetanib as first-line therapy in treating patients with locally advanced or metastatic urinary tract cancer.

Intravesical treatment for superficial bladder cancer has been used for the past 4-5 decades. Intravesical chemotherapy is beneficial in terms of recurrence and time to recurrence in grade 1-2 stage Ta tumours, usually non-invasive. Intravesical chemotherapy has negligible effect on disease progression in high-risk superficial bladder cancer-ie, grade 3, stage T1, and carcinoma in situ. However, BCG as induction and maintenance treatment effectively delays progression. Electromotive mitomycin increases tissue uptake compared with that of passive diffusion. Electromotive mitomycin has emerged as an alternative or complementary treatment to BCG. The rationale for combining anticancer drugs is based on the need to increase efficacy and reduce emergence of resistant malignant cells. This approach is not frequently applied to use of intravesical agents for treatment of superficial bladder cancer, for which immunotherapeutic BCG and chemotherapeutic mitomycin seem to be a potentially effective combination. Studies have addressed concurrent use of mitomycin and BCG, and assigned two roles to mitomycin: antitumor action and tissue-scarifying (ie, surface-modifying) effect that enables BCG to attach more efficiently to the urothelium. The investigators therefore aimed to assess whether induction of inflammation by use of BCG before mitomycin treatment makes the bladder mucosa more permeable and thus enables mitomycin to reach the target more easily. This randomised trial to compare the efficacy of sequential BCG and electromotive mitomycin with that of the current standard of BCG alone for patients with high-risk superficial bladder cancer. After transurethral resection and multiple biopsies patients with stage pT1 bladder cancer are randomly assigned to: 81 mg BCG infused over 120 min once a week for 6 weeks; or to 81 mg BCG infused over 120 min once a week for 2 weeks, followed by 40 mg electromotive mitomycin (intravesical electric current 20 mA for 30 min) once a week as one cycle for three cycles (n=107). Complete responders underwent maintenance treatment: those assigned BCG alone had one infusion of 81 mg BCG once a month for 10 months, and those assigned BCG and mitomycin had 40 mg electromotive mitomycin once a month for 2 months, followed by 81 mg BCG once a month as one cycle for three cycles. The primary endpoint was disease-free interval; secondary endpoints were time to progression; overall survival; and disease-specific survival. Analyses were intention to treat.

This trial evaluates the therapeutic benefit of extended versus limited lymphadenectomy at the time of radical cystectomy in patients with bladder cancer.

The principal objective of the trial is to test the hypothesis that Online Adaptive Radiotherapy for Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer is feasible across multiple Radiation Oncology departments.