Active clinical trials for "Urinary Bladder Neoplasms"

A non-randomized, open-label phase II study to explore the feasibility, time to recurrence, duration of response and safety of the adjuvant intravesical instillation of EOquin (apaziquone) in patients with high-risk superficial bladder tumors, and the response and duration of response in patients with carcinoma in situ of the bladder.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin, paclitaxel, gemcitabine, and cisplatin, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Giving chemotherapy before radiation therapy, and combining chemotherapy with radiation therapy, may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of neoadjuvant gemcitabine, paclitaxel, and carboplatin followed by cisplatin and radiation therapy in treating patients who have locally advanced or recurrent carcinoma (cancer) of the urothelium.

Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of LMB-9 immunotoxin in treating patients who have advanced colon, breast, non-small cell lung, bladder, pancreatic, or ovarian cancer. The LMB-9 immunotoxin can locate tumor cells and kill them without harming normal cells.

Bortezomib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for tumor cell growth. This phase II trial is studying how well bortezomib works in treating patients with advanced transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelium.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of 17-N-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin in treating patients with refractory advanced solid tumors or hematologic cancers.

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses x-rays to damage tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining radiation therapy with chemotherapy and surgery may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of radiation therapy plus combination chemotherapy in treating patients who have stage II or stage III bladder cancer that can be removed by surgery.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy in treating patients who have stage IV locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer.

This is a phase II study. This means that BCG therapy has already been found to be safe in humans. The investigators just want to see if using more treatments works better.

there are many techniques for uretero-ileal anastomosis some of them are antirefluxing for protection of the upper urinary tract with many complications including strictures and pyelonephritis with difficult technical issues and long operation time so a modified technique combining the 2 ureter by wallace technique and implanted them in a single trough in the neobladder making the surgery easier and shorter. this technique was done after informed consent in 45 patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer candidate for radical cystectomy and ileal neobladder diversion

The study is a randomized clinical trial (RCT) including patients undergoing robotic assisted cystectomy with intracorporeal ileal conduit at four large university hospitals in Denmark. If included, the patients will be randomized 1:1 to two study arms: 1) Standard arm with current procedure where intracorporeal bowel anastomosis is performed with the 60 mm EndoGIA stapler, or 2) Experimental arm where the bowel anastomosis will be performed totally robotic with the Endowrist Intuitive robotic stapler with 2 subsequent elongated 45 mm magazines for the side-to-side anastomosis. Primary outcome will be postoperative bowel function where a better bowel recovery is anticipated in the experimental Endowrist arm whereas serious complications are expected to be non-inferior to the current standard.