Instillation of Bacillus of Calmette-Guerin (BCG) into the urinary bladder (intravesical administration) improves rates of disease recurrence and progression after transurethral resection (TUR) of high risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), but over 30% of people still develop recurrent transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) despite optimal therapy with adjuvant intravesical BCG. Our meta-analysis, including a recent randomised phase 2 trial, suggests that outcomes might be improved further by using an adjuvant intravesical regimen that includes both Mitomycin (MM) and BCG. These promising findings require corroboration in a definitive, large scale, randomised phase 3 trial using standard techniques for intravesical administration.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
500
BCG (Oncotice) is administered intravesically as per usual standard of care
MMC is administered intravesically as per usual standard of care
Nottingham University Hospitals
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Disease free survival
Death, disease free survival, or evidence of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC)
Time frame: 5 years follow up
Activity
Clear cystoscopy at 3 months
Time frame: 3 months
Time to Recurrence
Recurrence of TCC bladder
Time frame: 5 years follow up
Time to Progression
Recurrence of Higher Grade or Stage
Time frame: 5 years follow up
Safety and adverse events
Adverse Events Graded According to CTC AE V4.03
Time frame: During treatment phase of the trial (typically 12 months)
Health-Related Quality of Life
QLQ-BLS24. Individual internationally-validated (but subjective) symptom score questionnaire that gives an overall QOL assesment, that can be tracked throughout follow up. They do not use SI units of measurement.
Time frame: 5 years follow up
Health-Related Quality of Life
QLQ-C30. Individual internationally-validated (but subjective) symptom score questionnaire that gives an overall QOL assesment, that can be tracked throughout follow up. They do not use SI units of measurement.
Time frame: 5 years follow up
Health-Related Quality of Life
I-PSS. Individual internationally-validated (but subjective) symptom score questionnaire that gives an overall QOL assesment, that can be tracked throughout follow up. They do not use SI units of measurement.
Time frame: 5 years follow up
Overall Survival Time
Death from any Cause
Time frame: 5 years follow up
Feasibility as a future standard of care
Compliance with intravesical therapy, measured in percent (%) of planned intravesical therapies actually given
Time frame: During treatment phase of the trial, typically 1 year
Marginal Resource Use
Number of GP visits, Number of outpatient and emergency department visits, number of inpatient admissions and number of days admitted
Time frame: 5 years follow up
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