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Filter by:he primary objective is to characterize the safety profile of UGN-201 in patients with urothelial carcinoma undergoing radical cystectomy. Corresponding primary endpoint: Toxicity of concern (TOX) will be monitored until 30 days after surgery or until the patient meets the surgery prevention or delay TOX definition below, whichever comes first. A patient will be considered to have a TOX if any of the following apply: - Any 30-day grade 3 or higher surgical complication at least possibly related to UGI-201 - Any toxicity at least possibly related to the treatment that prevents surgery or delays it more than 12 weeks from date of cystectomy decision with MDACC Urologist. Missing/delayed surgery due to progression or withdrawal not related to toxicity will not count as a TOX event. Rapid progression is not seen with UGN-201. For such a patient, TOX monitoring will follow for 30 days after the administered dose of UGN-201. - Death between the start of study and the 30-day post-surgical assessment will count if it is toxic death at least possibly related to the UGN-201 or surgery. Deaths clearly unrelated to treatment will not count as an event. Adverse events will be recorded using CTCAE v5 and surgical complications will be recorded using Clavien-Dindo classification. Exploratory objectives are: - To evaluate the efficacy of UGN-201 by pathologic T0 and ≤ pT1 rate (pathologic down-staging) after neoadjuvant treatment with UGN-201, in patients with NMBIC and MIBC undergoing radical cystectomy, respectively. - To assess the immunological/biomarker changes in tumor tissues, peripheral blood, and urine in response to UGN-201 treatment in patients with bladder cancer undergoing radical cystectomy and to explore any potential association between these biomarker measures and antitumor activity. Patients with MIBC will be defined as having a response if their pathologic stage is pT1 stage or less. Patients with NMIBC will be defined as having a response if their pathologic stage is pT0. Immunologic and other biomarker measures will be recorded by laboratory standards for each measure.
Bladder cancer (BC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and the most successful example of vaccine in cancer treatment, representing an efficient model for studying the importance of systemic and local immune mechanisms. Despite being the standard of treatment for the last 40 years, the exact mode of action of immunotherapy with the bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is still poorly defined. In a mechanistic study, the investigators intend to prospectively investigate immunological signatures, including immune-checkpoints, pre and post-treatment in patients with BC, and correlate the cytokines of the immune by-product and BCG administration pathway to understand the independent contributions of BCG priming (prior exposure to BCG) and crosstalk immunotherapy between tumor profiles and immune response of the patient. The proposed research strategy is justified by the need to identify subsets of patients who better respond to an intervention, or to predict why new immunotherapies and drugs may be successful or failed in clinical trials.
This research is being done to determine the safety and feasibility of using a type of radiation guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and chemotherapy to treat patients with gastric and breast cancer. The name of the radiation machine involved in this study is the MRIdian Linear Accelerator.
The objective of this study is to obtain human blood CD34+ hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) to reconstitute a match human immune system in our PDX model. The hypothesis is that by using matched leukocytes and PDX from the same patient, rejection of the PDX by the host immune system will not be observed and therefore a preclinical model to study immunotherapy can be developed to study, understand and improve upon our current therapies. HSPCs will be collected from bone marrow aspirate obtained from a bone marrow biopsy. The secondary objective is to use patient tumor biopsy samples or circulating tumor cell samples to develop additional preclinical models of GU cancers, particularly prostate cancer, that are clinically relevant by generating additional PDXs.
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine and oxaliplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well giving gemcitabine together with oxaliplatin works compared to gemcitabine alone in treating patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer.