Risk Enabled Therapy After Initiating Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer (RETAIN)

Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Phase II Trial of Risk Enabled Therapy After Initiating Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer (RETAIN BLADDER)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02710734
• Other study ID #: GU-086
• Secondary ID: 15-1071
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: February 24, 2016
• Est. completion date: February 2034

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate a risk-adapted approach to the treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer. Each baseline transuretheral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) sample will be sequenced while proceeding with neoadjuvant accelerated methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin (AMVAC) chemotherapy. Based on the mutational profile and the post AMVAC TURBT findings, patients will be treated with active surveillance (experimental arm), or standard of care intravesicle therapy, chemoradiation or surgery. We hypothesize that this approach will lead to non-inferior metastasis-free survival at 2 years, while preserving the bladder and thus quality-of-life for a proportion of patients.

Description:

This phase II trial studies how well maximal transurethral surgery (surgery performed with a special instrument inserted through the urethra) followed by accelerated methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin hydrochloride, cisplatin, and radiation therapy work in treating patients with bladder cancer that has spread to the muscle. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as methotrexate, vinblastine sulfate, doxorubicin hydrochloride, and cisplatin work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Giving chemotherapy with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells. Giving combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 78
• Est. completion date: February 2034
• Est. primary completion date: February 2027
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female patients =18 years.

• Primary urothelial or predominantly urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.

• Histologic evidence of muscularis propria invasion.

• AJCC27 clinical stage T2-T4a .

• No radiographic evidence of lymph node positivity (N0) or metastatic disease (M0). Clinical lymphadenopathy on staging CT greater than 1.5 cm in short axis must be biopsy proven negative.

• ECOG performance status 0, 1, or 2.

• Left ventricular ejection fraction = 50% by MUGA or ECHO within 6 months of study entry.

• Normal organ and bone marrow function as defined:

Leukocytes = 3,000/mcL Absolute neutrophil count = 1,500/mcL Platelets = 100,000/mcL Total bilirubin = institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) = 2.5 X institutional ULN Creatinine Creatinine Clearance = 50 mL/min (calculated using the Cockroft-Gault formula or measured with 24 hour urine collection)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any component of small cell histology.

• Prior pelvic radiation therapy or patients who have undergone prior radiation to greater than or equal to 25% of the bone marrow within the past year are excluded due to risk of life threatening myelosuppression

• Prior systemic chemotherapy; patients who have received any previous systemic chemotherapy or radiation therapy for urothelial carcinoma or cytotoxic chemotherapy for another malignancy within 1 year of study entry are ineligible.

• Prior or concurrent malignancy of any other site except for non-melanoma skin cancer, unless disease free interval = 5 years.

• Patients who have received experimental agents within 4 weeks of study entry.

• History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to Methotrexate, Vinblastine, Adriamycin or Cisplatin or other agents used in the study

• Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection (defined by current oral or intravenous antibiotic therapy), symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.

• Pregnant women are excluded from this study due to the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects of cytotoxic chemotherapy.

• Known HIV-positive patients on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible because of the potential for pharmacokinetic interactions with cytotoxic chemotherapy. In addition, these patients are at increased risk of lethal infections when treated with marrow-suppressive therapy.

• Patients with hydronephrosis that has not been addressed with an intervention such as placement of a stent.

• Pregnancy & Women of Childbearing Potential

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Urinary Bladder Neoplasms
• Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder

Intervention

Drug:
• Methotrexate
Administered Day 1 of each 14 day cycle for 3 cycles
• Vinblastine
Administered Day 1 of each 14 day cycle for 3 cycles
• Doxorubicin
Administered Day 1 of each 14 day cycle for 3 cycles
• Cisplatin
Administered Day 1 of each 14 day cycle for 3 cycles

Radiation:
• Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
2.0 Gy per fraction to the whole bladder plus a margin for a total of 32 fractions (64.0 Gy). Radiation will be administered from Monday to Friday

Procedure:
• Transurethral Resection of Bladder tumor
Performed at before and after AMVAC and after chemoradiation and intravesicle therapy

Drug:
• 5-FU
Continuous 24hr Intravenous infusion days 1-5 and 16-20 with radiation treatment
• Mitomycin C
Intravenous on day 1 with radiation treatment

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Johns Hopkins	Baltimore	Maryland
United States	Fox Chase Cancer Center	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	Sidney kimmel Cancer Center	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	Washington Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center	Washington	District of Columbia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Rate of urothelial carcinoma recurrence in active surveillance patients		60 months
Other	Overall survival and PFS of the entire cohort		60 months
Other	toxicity during each treatment arm according to NCI CTCAE v 4.01 criteria		24 months
Other	Proportion of patients with =cT1 disease after TURBT#2		up to 22 weeks
Other	Proportion of patients requiring a cystectomy, either immediately after TURBT#2 or as salvage after surveillance or CRT		up to 24 months
Other	Endoscopic Tumor Quantification System score at each TURBT	At each cystoscopic examination, the location and extent of tumor volume will be visually depicted and graded according to Endoscopic Tumor Quantification System	24 months
Other	Quality of life with neoadjuvant AMVAC and subsequent risk-adapted treatment	American Urologic Association (AUA) Symptom Index Score, Sexual Health Inventory for Men (SHIM) score or Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) score	60 months
Primary	Metastasis-free survival (MFS) at 2 years.		24 months
Secondary	Ability to complete of 3 cycles of neoadjuvant AMVAC and chemoradiation therapy with 5-FU and mitomycin C.		Up to 37 Weeks