This study will enrol patients with maximally resected (via transurethral resection (TURBT) non-metastatic muscle invasive bladder cancer, who either wish to attempt bladder preservation therapy or are ineligible for cystectomy. Patients must have adequate organ function and performance status to receive cisplatin based chemoradiotherapy, and no contraindications to the use of pembrolizumab. The study will enrol 30 patients to be treated with pembrolizumab and radiotherapy. All patients will be planned to be treated with 64Gy of radiation therapy in 32 fractions over 6 weeks and 2 days. All patients will receive cisplatin 35mg/m2 IV concurrently weekly with radiation therapy for 6 doses total. Pembrolizumab will commence concurrently with radiation and be given 200mg IV every 21 days, continuing until the 12 week cystoscopy and assessment. Surveillance cystoscopy will be performed 12 weeks after the commencement of chemoradiotherapy, and assess the rate of complete response to therapy. A safety follow up visit will occur 4 and 12 weeks post cystoscopy. From week 31 survival follow up will commence with clinical assessment, cystoscopy and CT staging performed at intervals until 5 years. The objective of the study is to assess the safety and feasibility of combining pembrolizumab with chemoradiotherapy. The primary endpoint assessed will be safety, as defined by a satisfactorily low rate of unacceptable toxicity (G3-4 adverse events or failure of completion of planned chemotherapy and radiotherapy according to defined parameters). The secondary endpoint will be efficacy, as assessed by complete response rate of the primary tumour at first post chemoradiotherapy cystoscopic assessment. Exploratory analysis will include assessment of tumour histopathological, molecular, genetic and immunological parameters. It is expected that it will take two years to accrue the required 30 patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
28
200 mg/m2, IV (in the vein) on day 1 every three weeks (Weeks 1, 3, 7, 10, 13, 16 and 19). until progression or unacceptable toxicity develops.
35 mg/m2, IV (in the vein) every week for six weeks.
2.00Gy once daily for 32 fractions, 5 fractions/week over six weeks and two days (a total of 64Gy).
Chris O'Brien Lifehouse
Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Liverpool Hospital
Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Prince of Wales Hospital
Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Royal North Shore Hospital
St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
Austin Health
Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
The Number of Participants Experiencing an Unacceptable Level of Toxicity as Defined Below
Unacceptable toxicity was predefined as fitting one of the following categories. * Grade 3 or worse adverse event per CTCAE V 5.0 (excluding urinary adverse events Grade 3 and Grade 4) * Cisplatin is withheld for 2 or more doses * Cisplatin is withheld or dose reduced such that \<66% of the intended total cisplatin dose is delivered * Radiation therapy extended beyond 7 weeks * Any single pembrolizumab dose is delayed for \>6 weeks
Time frame: 12 weeks of study treatment
Complete Response Rate at Week 19 of the Trial (12 Weeks Post Completion of Chemoradiotherapy).
Complete response defined at this time point by fulfillment of all of the following criteria: i) the bi-manual examination under anesthesia is negative (performed at the time of cystoscopy) ii) All biopsies are negative for any tumor at the site(s) of pre-treatment tumor(s) iii) There is an absence of metastatic disease on most recently performed imaging of chest/abdomen and pelvis
Time frame: Week 19 (12 weeks post chemotherapy)
The Complete Response Rate Assessed at Week 31 of the Trial (24 Weeks Post Completion of Chemoradiotherapy).
Complete response defined at this time point by fulfillment of all of the following criteria: i) the bi-manual examination under anesthesia is negative (performed at the time of cystoscopy) ii) All biopsies are negative for any tumor at the site(s) of pre-treatment tumor(s) iii) There is an absence of metastatic disease on most recently performed imaging of chest/abdomen and pelvis
Time frame: Week 31 of the trial (24 weeks post completion of chemoradiotherapy)
Estimated Median Overall Survival
Estimation after characterization with a Kaplan Meier curve
Time frame: median follow up 39 months
Overall Survival at 12 Months Post Study Entry
Overall survival timepoint estimated after characterization on a Kaplan Meier curve
Time frame: 12 months post study entry
Distant Metastasis Free Survival (DMFS) at 12 Months
End point was characterized using a Kaplan Meier curve and 12 month time point assessed.
Time frame: At 12 months post study entry
Local Disease Free Survival (LRPFS) at 12 Months
Local recurrence was defined as recurrence in the bladder or a nodal recurrence in the pelvis
Time frame: 12 months post therapy commencement
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