To develop a simple blood and urine test that we would perform before patients start their treatment to predict the risk that their bladder cancer might come back. To develop this test the investigators plan to analyze blood, urine and cancer tissue from bladder cancer patients and follow them closely during and after treatment. This will include looking for changes in proteins and genes that might play a role in bladder cancer biology. The investigators will then compare the information obtained from the studies of blood, urine and cancer tissue between patients that are cured and those whose cancer comes back. The knowledge about these differences between patients can then potentially be used to develop a blood or urine test to tell us who has a high risk for having bladder cancer come back.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
179
A collection of donated cancer and normal adjacent tissues, blood and urine which will be prospectively obtained from patients through the Tissue Procurement Shared Resources (TPSR) and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Biospecimen and Biorepository Resource (BBR) as needed.
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Identify novel biomarkers for bladder cancer
Predict and detect bladder cancer recurrence, specifically through development of biomarkers using bladder cancer tissue samples as well as blood and urine samples. Detect the recurrence of disease through development of blood and urine biomarkers using pre-therapy and post-therapy biospecimens.
Time frame: up to 5 years
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