The aim of this study is to evaluate a risk-adapted approach to the treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer. Each baseline transuretheral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) sample will be sequenced while proceeding with neoadjuvant accelerated methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin (AMVAC) chemotherapy. Based on the mutational profile and the post AMVAC TURBT findings, patients will be treated with active surveillance (experimental arm), or standard of care intravesicle therapy, chemoradiation or surgery. We hypothesize that this approach will lead to non-inferior metastasis-free survival at 2 years, while preserving the bladder and thus quality-of-life for a proportion of patients.
This phase II trial studies how well maximal transurethral surgery (surgery performed with a special instrument inserted through the urethra) followed by accelerated methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin hydrochloride, cisplatin, and radiation therapy work in treating patients with bladder cancer that has spread to the muscle. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as methotrexate, vinblastine sulfate, doxorubicin hydrochloride, and cisplatin work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Giving chemotherapy with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells. Giving combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
78
Administered Day 1 of each 14 day cycle for 3 cycles
Administered Day 1 of each 14 day cycle for 3 cycles
Administered Day 1 of each 14 day cycle for 3 cycles
Administered Day 1 of each 14 day cycle for 3 cycles
2.0 Gy per fraction to the whole bladder plus a margin for a total of 32 fractions (64.0 Gy). Radiation will be administered from Monday to Friday
Performed at before and after AMVAC and after chemoradiation and intravesicle therapy
Continuous 24hr Intravenous infusion days 1-5 and 16-20 with radiation treatment
Intravenous on day 1 with radiation treatment
Washington Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Sidney kimmel Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Metastasis-free survival (MFS) at 2 years.
Time frame: 24 months
Ability to complete of 3 cycles of neoadjuvant AMVAC and chemoradiation therapy with 5-FU and mitomycin C.
Time frame: Up to 37 Weeks
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