The purposes of this study are to: * find out whether participants' cancer returns or gets worse while they are taking lenalidomide and Bacille Calmette-Guerrin (BCG); * evaluate the safety and tolerability of the combination of lenalidomide and BCG; * compare the cancer progression of participants taking lenalidomide and BCG versus participants taking only BCG
Investigators planned to screen approximately 100 people with bladder cancer who are 18 years of age or older throughout the United States for this study. This is a multi-center study combining two marketed drugs, one of which has not been used previously in people with transitional cell cancer. Lenalidomide (Revlimid®) is a drug that alters the immune system and it may also interfere with the development of tiny blood vessels that help support tumor growth. Therefore, in theory, it may reduce or prevent the growth of cancer cells. Lenalidomide is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of specific types of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and in combination with dexamethasone for patients with multiple myeloma (MM) who have received at least 1 prior therapy. MDS and MM are cancers of the blood. Lenalidomide is currently being tested in a variety of cancer conditions. It is not approved by the FDA for use in people with bladder cancer, so in this case it is considered experimental. The other drug used in this study is Bacille Calmette-Guerrin (BCG). BCG is approved by the FDA for use in people with bladder cancer.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
17
Participants will receive BCG instillations once per week for the first 6 weeks. At 3 months and 6 months, participants will receive BCG instillations once per week for three weeks.
Participants may also receive capsules of lenalidomide 10 mg to swallow once per day for 7 months. The study doctor will tell participants if they will be taking lenalidomide.
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Tampa, Florida, United States
Arm A: Progression Free Survival (PFS)
The 1-year progression free/ recurrence free/ bladder-intact survival was tabulated for the experimental arm for a median follow-up period of 369 days. The progression free/ recurrence free/ bladder-intact survival is defined as the time from start of study treatment to first documentation of objective tumor progression, recurrence, bladder resection or irradiation or to death due to any cause, whichever comes first. PFS data was not collected for participants in the Arm B: Control because too few participants were enrolled in Arm B to conduct the planned per Arm comparison
Time frame: 1 year
Treatment Emergent Adverse Events (AEs) or Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)
Number of participants with treatment emergent AEs or SAEs per category. SAEs will be specifically labeled as such. Participants were assessed at monthly intervals (corresponding to Revlimid™ refill points for adverse events), classified by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.0, and these were tabulated.
Time frame: Duration of study treatment and follow-up - average of 12 months
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