Urothelial carcinomas are one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide. Postoperative patients carry a poor prognosis with an estimated five-year disease-specific survival rate of 50%. To improve overall survival and reduce the recurrent risk, chemotherapy is recommended as a standard of care. However, currently in Hong Kong, neoadjuvant (preoperational) chemotherapy and adjuvant (postoperative) chemotherapy are not commonly or regularly provided due to the concern of the potential harm from both physicians and patients. Recently, genetic signature from circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is emerging as a pivotal biomarker for detecting caner in early stage and molecular residual disease (MRD). With strengths of non-invasive and superior sensitivity, ctDNA is hopefully to serve as a cancer-agnostic surrogate analyte for risk stratification of tumor recurrence, thereby guiding individually tailored treatment. Therefore, this study is proposed to exploratively assess the benefit of ctDNA-guided approach for postoperative adjuvant therapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
1,000 mg/m2 intravenous gemcitabine on day 1 and day 8
70 mg/m2 intravenous cisplatin (split into 2 doses on day 1 and day 8)
Queen Mary Hospital
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
RECRUITINGthe radiational disease-free survival (rDFS)
Time frame: 1 year
Progression Free Survival (PFS)
time to recurrence
Time frame: 1 year
Overall Survival (OS)
Time frame: 5 year
ctDNA clearance rate in ctDNA(+) patients
Time frame: 1 year
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