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New drug combo aims to fight bladder cancer when standard treatment fails

NCT ID NCT06388720

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First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This phase 2 trial tests a two-drug combination (mitomycin-C and gemcitabine) given directly into the bladder for people with high-risk bladder cancer that did not respond to BCG therapy. The study will enroll 82 participants to see if this sequential treatment can prevent cancer from coming back or getting worse. Researchers will also monitor safety and side effects.

What this could mean

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Active substance
mitomycin-C and gemcitabine
What this could lead to
If successful, this could offer a new treatment option for people with high-risk bladder cancer that hasn't responded to standard therapy, potentially delaying recurrence or progression.
What could go wrong
This is a small, early-phase (phase 2) trial with only 82 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The treatment may not work better than existing options, and side effects from the bladder instillations are possible.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Phase 2

Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.

Participants

About 82 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Nov 2024

Expected to finish

Dec 2028

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

A government agency

The lead sponsor is a government body.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

20 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Inclusion Criteria: 1. a patient over the age of 20 2. Patients who are willing and able to complete a written test subject consent/approval for this examination. 3. Histologically confirmed high-risk NMIBC (according to AUA guidelines; High-grade T1 disease, any recurrent high-grade Ta, high-grade Ta \>3 cm, high-grade Ta that is multifocal, any carcinoma in situ, any BCG failure in high-grade patients, any variant histology, any lymphovascular invasion, and any high-grade prostatic urethral involvement) with prior BCG therapy. 4. The most recent bladder examination/TURBT must be performed within 8 weeks before the initial administration of the trial treatment. Patients with high risk NMIBC who received proper BCG treatment but did not respond to BCG 5. Patients who are not eligible for a radical bladder resection or who have refused surgery. 6. Patient who are not being pregnant or breast feeding until the study period. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patient diagnosed with muscle-invasive bladder cancer at TURBT 2. If upper urinary tract urothelial cancer is accompanied by imaging 3. If the imaging indicates extravesical involvement (cT3) 4. Imaging shows lymph node metastasis (short-axis 15mm or more) or distant metastasis 5. In a biopsy, non-transitional cell histology is dominant, or only non-transitional cell tissue is present (primary squamous cell carcinoma, primary adenocarcinoma, small cell carcinoma, sarcoma, carcinosarcoma, paraganglioma, melanoma, lymphoma) 6. In the case of receiving systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy for other cancers within 3 years 7. If patient have a history of pelvic radiation therapy for other cancers within 3 years 8. If patient have a history of receiving Mitomycin-c or gemcitabine in the bladder within 3 years. The exception is cases used for the purpose of injection therapy of anticancer drugs in the early bladder cancer 9. If patient has a history of allergy to mitomycin-c or gemcitabine 10. Cystoscopy shows a tumor in the prostate urethra 11. Patients who have participated in studies using clinical trial drugs and are currently receiving clinical trial drugs or who have used clinical trial drugs or clinical trial medical devices within 4 weeks prior to the date of initial treatment 12. After post-cystoscopy/TURBT, the patient received intravesical chemotherapy prior to the start of trial treatment 13. Thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy or bleeding tendency patient. 14. Pregnant or breast-feeding women 15. If patient treated yellow fever vaccine or phenytoin 16. Dysfunction of liver or kidney (GFP≤30) 17. If patient undergo severe myelosuppression 18. If patient complicated severe infection 19. If patient definitely diagnosed interstitial lung disease or lung fibrosis by chest X-ray. 20. If patient conduct chest radiotherapy.

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Conditions

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • National Cancer Center

    RECRUITING

    Goyang-si, South Korea

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