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Chemotherapy With or Without Surgery in Treating Patients With Bladder Cancer
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Study NCT00042887   Information provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First Received: August 5, 2002   Last Updated: February 6, 2009   History of Changes

August 5, 2002
February 6, 2009
May 2002
 
 
 
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00042887 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
 
 
 
Chemotherapy With or Without Surgery in Treating Patients With Bladder Cancer
Chemoresection With 4 Weekly Intravesical Instillations Of Mitomycin C Versus Transurethral Resection (TUR) Followed By One Single Immediate Instillation Of Mitomycin C In Single, Small, Papillary Stage Ta, T1 Bladder Tumors: A Prospective Randomized Phase III Trial

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Infusing chemotherapy drugs directly into the bladder may kill more cancer cells. It is not yet known if surgery followed by chemotherapy is more effective than chemotherapy alone in treating bladder cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of chemotherapy alone with that of transurethral resection followed by chemotherapy in treating patients who have bladder cancer.

OBJECTIVES:

  • Compare the efficacy of chemoresection with 4 weekly intravesical instillations of mitomycin vs transurethral resection followed by 1 instillation of mitomycin in patients with low-risk superficial transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.
  • Compare the disease-free survival of patients treated with these regimens.
  • Determine the response rate at 6 weeks in patients treated with chemoresection.
  • Determine the percent of patients with tumor at 6 weeks treated with transurethral resection.
  • Compare the quality of life of patients treated with these regimens.
  • Compare the side effects of these regimens in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to disease status (primary vs recurrent) and participating center. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

  • Arm I: Patients undergo chemoresection with intravesical instillation of mitomycin once weekly for 4 weeks.
  • Arm II: Patients undergo transurethral resection followed within 1-6 hours by intravesical instillation of mitomycin.

Quality of life is assessed at baseline, at week 1 (arm II only), at week 5 (arm I only), and then at week 6.

Patients are followed at weeks 6 and 19, every 6 months for 3 years, and then annually for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 1,000 patients (500 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 5 years.

Phase III
Interventional
Treatment, Randomized, Active Control
Bladder Cancer
  • Drug: mitomycin C
  • Procedure: conventional surgery
 
 

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID) in Medline.
 
Active, not recruiting
 
 
 

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Cytologically confirmed solitary primary or recurrent papillary transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder

    • Ta or T1
  • Tumor no greater than 2 cm in diameter
  • Negative urine cytology
  • No suspicious lesions in bladder requiring biopsy
  • No tumors in the prostatic urethra or upper urinary tract
  • No prior history of T1 G3 tumors, muscle invasive tumors (T2 or greater), or carcinoma in situ

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 80 and under

Performance status

  • WHO 0-1

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Not specified

Hepatic

  • Not specified

Renal

  • Not specified

Other

  • HIV negative
  • No active intractable or uncontrollable bladder infection
  • No urethral strictures that would preclude endoscopic procedures or repeated catheterization
  • No prior or concurrent congenital or acquired immune deficiency syndrome
  • No other prior or concurrent malignancy except cured basal cell skin cancer or intraepithelial cancer of the cervix
  • No prior or concurrent leukemia or Hodgkin's disease
  • No concurrent disease for which general anesthesia is contraindicated
  • No psychological, familial, sociological, or geographical condition that would preclude study compliance
  • Not pregnant or nursing

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • More than 12 months since prior BCG vaccine

Chemotherapy

  • At least 1 year since prior mitomycin

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • No prior pelvic radiotherapy

Surgery

  • No prior organ transplant

Other

  • At least 3 months since prior intravesical treatment
Both
up to 80 Years
No
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Belgium,   Italy,   Netherlands,   Slovakia,   Turkey
 
NCT00042887
 
CDR0000069482, EORTC-30004
European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
 
Investigator: Willem Oosterlinck, MD, PhD Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
June 2004

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