Active clinical trials for "Urinary Bladder Neoplasms"

The aim of this pilot study is to assess the efficacy and toxicity of immediate pre-operative instillation of mitomycin C compared to the standard early post-operative .

Effect of adjuvant chemotherapy to control tumor progression in patients after cystectomy for locally advanced bladder cancer.

Patients diagnosed with low risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) are at risk of frequent low grade recurrence, which usually necessitates surgical intervention under general anaesthetic. This multicentre study aims to establish the short term efficacy of chemoresection using chemotherapy within the bladder for the treatment of NMIBC. Should the levels of complete response following chemoresection meet predefined criteria, a larger phase III trial would be developed to assess longer term disease related endpoints, with the aim of standardising management of recurrent low risk NMIBC and potentially removing the need for over a thousand patients each year to undergo 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 combining cisplatin, paclitaxel, and gemcitabine in treating patients who have progressive unresectable regional or metastatic bladder cancer.

The purpose of this study is to learn whether it is feasible to use the LifeScience Technologies application (LST app) in patients undergoing radical cystectomy with the eventual goal to reduce complications and readmissions to the hospital after surgery.

To evaluate the short term results of chemoradiation in case of T1G3 BC after BCG failure.

This study evaluates the influence of premedication on cognitive functions in patients undergoing transurethral resection of bladder tumor under spinal anesthesia. The aims of premedication are anxiolysis, analgesia and the reduction of perioperative risk among the patients with comorbidities. The patients will be randomly allocated to receive premedication either with opioid solely or with benzodiazepine combined with opioid. The anesthetic technique is standardized.

This is a prospective multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing the outcomes from Intracorporeal RARC (iRARC) with open radical cystectomy (ORC) in patients with bladder cancer. The study will recruit patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) or muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who have selected radical cystectomy for the treatment of bladder cancer. The time of interest for measurement of the primary outcomes will be 90 days post-surgery. Eligible patients will include those receiving neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (typically gemcitabine and cisplatin) and those having either an ileal conduit or a neo-bladder reconstruction. Patients who have selected radical cystectomy after appropriate counselling and following a specialist multi-disciplinary team (SMDT) recommendation, will be approached and asked to consent for this study. Consenting participants will be randomised 1:1 to either iRARC or ORC. Patients will be followed for a minimum of 90 days post-surgery. The study will be conducted in National Health Service (NHS) Trusts designated as Cancer Centres. Patients will be stratified by Type of urinary diversion (Continent diversion or ileal conduit) Performance status Centre Trial assessments will be conducted at baseline (before surgery), whilst participants are on admission and then 5, 12, 26 weeks,1 year and 18 months post surgery.

We try to assess the potential role of telomerase reverse transcriptase and MicroRNA (miR-155) in diagnosis of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer and their correlation with stage and grade of the tumor.

Goal-directed therapy (GDT) has been applied to various clinical settings and has been widely researched recently as a method for perioperative management of patients. Radical cystectomy is a complex surgical procedure in which the bladder is removed, followed by urinary diversion. It is an extensive and time-consuming intervention and has high probability of fluid imbalance and bleeding during surgery. We hypothesized that the application of GDT in these patients would improve clinical postoperative outcomes. Therefore, we will attempt to evaluate improvement of postoperative outcomes after applying GDT protocol based on changes in stroke volume index, cardiac index and mean arterial pressure in radical cystectomy.