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Filter by:The aim of this study is to see whether the Trilaciclib is safe and effective in slowing down the growth of bladder cancer in patients while taking chemoimmunotherapy.
The World Health Organization 2016 bladder tumor classification reported that the diagnosis of variant histology has increased from 6% to 33% in the last 2 decades, and there is an increasing interest in investigating the effects on disease management, treatment options, and survival outcomes in bladder tumors with variant histology. In bladder tumors, variant histology is known to be more aggressive and has a worse prognosis than pure urothelial cancer, and most cases are muscle invasive at diagnosis. Neoadjuvant cisplatin-containing combination chemotherapy is known to improves overall survival in patients with urothelial cancers. However, it is unclear whether patients with non-pure urothelial cancer (variant) histology will also benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The investigators aimed to evaluate the role of Neoadjuvant cisplatin-containing combination chemotherapy in the final treatment plan and its impact on survival in patients with bladder cancer who were diagnosed with variant histology in the radical cystectomy specimen.
National Health Service (NHS) England has commissioned The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to run a novel mobile clinical outreach service called 'Man Van' with the aim of enabling male patients' easy access to care at the site of their work and in their communities. The initial focus of this new standard of care clinic is to access workplaces with large manual workforces where large scale working from home is not possible. These will include logistics firms and bus companies. These companies employ large numbers of black and minority ethnic men who also have poorer outcomes with a range of other diseases, including Coronavirus disease (COVID)-19. The novel clinical service will collaborate with Unite (and other unions) as well as employers in order to reach our target groups effectively. There is also the opportunity to target higher risk groups e.g. Afro Caribbean communities whose rates of prostate cancer are 1 in 41 as well as occupational higher risk categories. The Man Van has the potential to swing the balance of evidence in favour of Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) screening, with a targeted screening program directed at high-risk groups including ethnic minorities and manual workers. Reasons for poorer outcomes amongst these groups are multi-factorial and complex. Levels of education are often a factor which can impact the understanding of the disease and how to seek assistance. Distrust of medical organisations has also been cited as a factor. The aim of the Man Van mobile outreach service is to enable men access to a specific men's health service - focusing on general health and wellbeing (including BMI assessment, blood pressure, blood sugar/diabetes checks etc) and a prostate check for those who raise concerns. This will include a PSA test where relevant. This will be the core data gathered from the project. Patients will receive PSA results in the 'Man Van' by a clinical nurse specialist with patients with raised PSA levels being referred into the standard rapid referral cancer pathways. Similar considerations will apply to men with haematuria detected on dip stick testing or who present with a testicular mass or penile lesion (both rare but important). The clinical data generated from each routine health screening appointment will be analysed to determine the effectiveness of the Man Van mobile outreach model in identifying prostate and other male cancers and other co-morbidities much earlier than if patients had waited to present to their General Practitioner (GP) or other healthcare provider. Patients who receive an early diagnosis of clinically significant prostate cancer will have access to early curative treatments, which are typically less invasive and shorter in timescales. Similar interventions have shown large scale success in particular with breast and cervical cancer. The NHS sees many patients accessing cancer care at a late stage. Reducing this trend is a key objective of the NHS Long Term Plan. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated health inequalities and mobile clinics can potentially be a model for alleviating this. To enable patients access to medical treatment earlier there is a need to make the 'seeking advice on men's health and prostate issues' less daunting, more normal and easily accessible. The 'Man Van' has the ability to do just that and it is anticipated that the findings of this research, using the data generated from each patient's routine health screening, will demonstrate that a mobile outreach model is more effective in identifying cancers at an earlier stage than 'traditional' diagnostic pathways. We also hope to evaluate the Man Van with a qualitative study looking at the patient perspectives from those who utilise the Man Van. The reasons for high risk in prostate cancer are heavily linked to genetics. This is an issue as there is less recruitment of high risk groups to studies. We hope to gather genetic data from a higher proportion of genetically susceptible men via the Man Van, which can be used in future to further genetic knowledge of prostate cancer.
This study will evaluate the effect of preoperative oral immunonutrition on postoperative complications in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Patients receiving preoperative immunonutrition will be compared to controls receiving a standard high-calorie, high-protein oral nutritional supplement.
Background: Muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is a systemic disease as >40% of patients (pts) ultimately develop recurrence after radical cystectomy (RC). For pts who cannot receive or refuse cisplatin-based chemotherapy there is no standard-of-care neoadjuvant therapy. Single-agent pembrolizumab, given neoadjuvantly in patients with T2-4N0M0 MIBC, documented a 42% pathologic complete response-rate (ypT0N0) in a previous AIRC-supported trial (PURE-01, NCT02736266; PMID: 30343614). However, there is a huge proportion of pts who do not benefit from single-agent immunotherapy. Antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) represent the next wave of MIBC treatment revolution. An umbrella of various neoadjuvant therapies including the ADC Sacituzumab govitecan (SG), SG plus pembrolizumab, and chemoimmunotherapy combination has been established to improve our knowledge on MIBC biology and to improve the outcomes. Hypothesis: By developing a robust biomarker program associated with therapeutic benefit of novel therapies or their combinations, along with an imaging biomarker development, the investigators will be able to identify suitable tumor characteristics for personalizing perioperative therapies in MIBC, coupled with the possibility to predict the pathological response to treatment. Aims: The project is aimed at characterizing the tumor and microenvironment characteristics of muscle-invasive bladder cancer, with a special focus on their changes induced by various neoadjuvant therapies preceding radical cystectomy. The investigators will aim to evaluate the tumor and immune profile on matched pre- vs post-therapy samples and noninvasively monitor the response to treatment with the use of radiological assessments. Experimental design: The investigators will access tumor samples from matched pre-therapy (transurethral resection of the bladder tumor) and post-therapy (radical cystectomy) surgical interventions. They will also analyze the imaging analyses of combined bladder multiparametric MRI/Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans pre-post neoadjuvant therapies, and will associate the data with the pathological response to treatment, expanding our previously reported work (PMID: 31882281). Biomarker analyses will include the following: i.) multiplex immunofluorescence assays will allow the investigators defining the immune contexture of tumor lesion; ii.) multiparametric flow cytometry will allow the phenotypic and functional analysis of peripheral blood cells at single cell level; iii.) a whole transcriptome assay will enable investigators to assign specific molecular subtypes to pathological response and outcome, as previously reported (PMID: 33785257; 32165065). Expected results: The investigators will expect to identify the tumor characteristics and immune-profiling enabling them to delineate the selection of patients most suited for certain novel perioperative therapies, thus anticipating the developments in clinical research that are being conducted worldwide in MIBC. The investigators will be also able to develop noninvasive tools for pathological complete response identification, thus enabling them to develop a next-generation of clinical trials aimed at sparing any radical local therapy on the bladder tumor. Impact on cancer: In principle, the present personalized strategy yields the potential to enhance the therapeutic standards achievable with RC alone as well as with single-agent immunotherapy and RC.
A single-arm, prospective, exploratory clinical trial to explore the pathological complete response (pCR) rate of immune checkpoint inhibitors combined with antibody conjugate drugs as the perioperative treatment of platinum-intolerant bladder cancer patients. Fifty-five patients with clinically or pathologically confirmed muscle-invasive bladder urothelial carcinoma (MIBC) who were ineligible for cisplatin-based chemotherapy or refused cisplatin-based chemotherapy were enrolled. Each subject will receive RC48-ADC and toripalimab intravenously every 2 weeks for a total of 4 cycles before surgery, 8 cycles after surgery. The efficacy was evaluated and followed up after 4 cycles of neoadjuvant therapy, 3 months postoperative, and every 3-6 months thereafter. The primary endpoint of this study was pathological complete response rate (pCR). The secondary endpoints were to explore the safety, disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR) and disease control rate (DCR) of RC48 combined with toripalimab neoadjuvant therapy followed by radical cystectomy.
The goal of this clinical trial is to demonstrate the feasibility of bladder transplantation in patients with terminal bladder diseases who would benefit from a new bladder or a combined kidney and bladder transplant. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Is human bladder transplantation feasible and safe? - How will the new bladder function in terms of storage and emptying? Participants will undergo a bladder-only or combined kidney and bladder transplantation. They will then be followed for two years to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and functionality of the bladder transplant.
VI-RADS was an observational, prospective, multicenter, no profit study. The aim of the study was to clarify the clinical validity of the Vesical Imaging-Reporting and Data System (VI-RADS) for the assessment of muscle invasion (MI) status in comparison with transurethral resection of bladder cancer (TURB) and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the score according to the specific tumour location.
This is a prospective cross-sectional survey-based study composed of both a retrospective chart review and 3-series patient survey. This study will help elicit potential areas throughout the perioperative course of radical cystectomy to improve patient resilience and quality of life, providing opportunity for future interventional studies.
The goal of this study is to test a new PET imaging agent in patients with solid tumors. This tracer is made of a radioactively-labeled monoclonal antibody MNPR-101, and can show where tumors are present in the body using a PET-scan. The investigators will investigate if the new imaging agent correctly shows all tumor lesions. In the future, this method may be useful to help predict who will benefit from certain therapies. Participants will be injected with the radioactive tracer once. After injection, participants will undergo 3 PET-scans. Each PET-scan will take a maximum of 30 minutes. The PET-scans are on separate days within 10 days after injection of the tracer (e.g., 2 hours after injection plus 3-5 days and 7-10 days after injection). Furthermore, the investigators will take blood samples 6 times (5 mL each). Blood pharmacokinetics (PK) will be measured on Day 1 at 10 min, 1h, 2h, once on Days 3-5, and once on Days 7-10. The amount of radioactivity injected will range between 37-74 MBq (±10%).