Active clinical trials for "Urinary Bladder Neoplasms"

Baobab oil is often used in traditional medicine as antipyretic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antimicrobial. It also regenerates the epithelial tissue in a short time improving tone and elasticity. We want to evaluate the effects of intravesical Baobab oil in patients with BCG-induced lower urinary tract symptoms.

This Phase II, single-arm study is designed to evaluate the effect of atezolizumab treatment in participants with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial bladder cancer. Participants will be enrolled into 1 of 2 cohorts. Cohort 1 will consist of participants who are treatment-naïve and ineligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy. The results of Cohort 1 are reported separately (NCT02951767). Cohort 2 (reported here) will contain participants who have progressed during or following a prior platinum-based chemotherapy regimen. Participants in both cohorts will be given a 1200 milligrams (mg) intravenous (IV) dose of atezolizumab on Day 1 of 21-day cycles. Treatment of participants in Cohort 1 will continue until disease progression per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Version 1.1 (RECIST v1.1) or unmanageable toxicity. Treatment of participants in Cohort 2 will continue until loss of clinical benefit or unmanageable toxicity.

Invasive urothelial bladder cancer is a common malignancy causing 14,000 deaths annually in the United States. The primary objective of the feasibility/Phase I portion of the study is to establish the feasibility and safety of proton and the safety of IMRT for patients with pure or mixed variant urothelial carcinoma.

Background: - Cabozantinib is a drug that slows the growth of blood vessels that feed tumors. It is approved for medullary thyroid cancer. However, studies have shown that prostate and ovarian tumors respond to it. Researchers want see if cabozantinib can be a safe and effective treatment for urothelial cancer. Objectives: - To test the safety and effectiveness of cabozantinib for advanced urothelial cancer. Eligibility: - Individuals at least 18 years of age who have advanced urothelial cancer that has not responded to standard treatments. Design: Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. Blood and urine samples will be collected. Tumor tissue samples will also be collected. Imaging studies will also be performed. Participants will take cabozantinib by mouth once per day on each day of a 28-day cycle. Treatment will be monitored with frequent blood tests and imaging studies. Participants will continue to take the study drug for as long as their cancer does not worsen and side effects are not too severe.

Background: - The drugs FdCyd (also called 5-fluoro-2'-deoxycytidine) and THU (also called tetrahydrouridine) are being used in a cancer treatment study. Not a lot is known about how FdCyd works in the body. Researchers want to look at a modified form of FdCyd using imaging studies to see how the drug reacts with the cancer. This study is not a treatment study. It is open only to people who are already on the FdCyd and THU cancer treatment study. Objectives: - To study how FdCyd affects advanced cancer cells. Eligibility: - Participants in National Cancer Institute study 09-C-0214. Design: Participants will have two imaging studies, one before starting FdCyd and THU treatment and one after starting treatment. Participants will have the modified FdCyd, known as F-18 FdCyd, with a dose of THU. The doses will be followed by two imaging study scans and frequent blood samples. This procedure will be repeated at a later date, during the FdCyd and THU treatment period. Treatment will not be provided as part of this study. This is an imaging study protocol only....

The purpose of this study is to evaluate safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of intravesical cis-urocanic acid in patients with primary or recurrent non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

This is a single-center, prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing two established transurethral electrical resection methods of urinary bladder tumors regarding their risk of stimulating the obturator nerve. One of the major safety issues with transurethral resection is bladder perforation as a consequence of obturator nerve stimulation followed by muscle contraction of. This is mostly a risk of resection of lateral bladder wall tumors near the course of the obturator nerve. It has been advocated that bipolar may be superior to monopolar resection, based on its different electrical properties. This is an important safety aspect for the patient. Main study question: In patients with lateral wall urinary bladder tumors, is bipolar superior to monopolar transurethral electroresection regarding risk of stimulation of the obturator nerve without preoperative nerve block?

In the proposed study the investigators aim to evaluate the effect of the standard of care dose (40mg) of MMC mixed with TC-3 gel (with sustained release mechanism on the drug) on low risk recurrent NMIBC lesions and to compare our findings to instillation with the standard mode of instillation- 40mg MMC in water in order to examine our hypothesis that MMC mixed with TC-3 gel will have at least non-inferior and even superior results over the standard instillation mode The investigators believe that this study is of importance of several aspects: It evaluates a new mode of bladder instillation that may bypass the drawbacks of the current instillation mode. If proved effective this mode of treatment might save the need of TURBT performance and serve as a new mode of tumor ablation. Even if proved partially effective this mode of treatment will diminish tumors size or number thus enable a more limited TURBT procedure. This mode of treatment will enable immediate medical attendance to the patient's tumor recurrence without the waiting period (resulting from queues in the medical centers) for TURBT, which might improve the patient's prognostic outcome. If this experimental treatment will prove to have a better ablative effect, this could be translated to a better prophylactic effect of tumor recurrence.

The study main objectives are to enhance treatment decision making and improve quality of life and post-treatment health care among patients diagnosed with invasive bladder cancer. Bladder cancer (BL Ca) is the 5th most commonly diagnosed cancer in the US . BL Ca is more common among men than women and 90% of all patients are over the age of 55. Surgery to remove the bladder followed by one of three diversion techniques (i.e., ileal conduit, continent reservoir, and neobladder) is the standard therapy following invasive bladder cancer. The emotional, functional, physical, and social impact of invasive Bl Ca treatment on patients' QOL and adjustment can be devastating. This impact significantly varies by treatment option. Treatment decision making in for BL Ca is difficult at best and potentially susceptible to a number of cognitive and affective factors (e.g., patients' emotional reaction, values, and expectations). Thus, in addition to adjusting to a potential life-threatening disease, having to cope with uncertainty about the efficacy and outcomes of different treatment options adds to the overall distress and may impair effective decision-making. In spite of increasing efforts in health communication and patient education, no study has examined treatment decision making among invasive bladder patients or has provided an educational intervention to facilitate treatment decision making among this population. To this end, and guided by the Self-Regulation theory (SRT) that emphasizes the role of cognitive and emotional factors in decision making, we have designed and pilot tested the acceptability of a preliminary educational and training experiential intervention (ETE) to address this gap in the literature. The ETE intervention uses new and innovative educational strategies and methods to educate patients about their treatment options and to facilitate their treatment decision making.

We will combine an oral investigational vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF inhibitor) called pazopanib which is being studied in kidney cancer will be combined with standard chemotherapy called taxol in patients with relapsed recurrent urothelial cancer.