New support tool aims to ease bladder cancer care burden
NCT ID NCT06414317
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Aug 26, 2026 · Updated 4 times
Summary
This trial tests a special education and navigation program for people with advanced bladder cancer and their caregivers. The program provides guidance, nutritional advice, and distress screening to help them better manage treatment decisions and care coordination. Researchers hope this support tool will improve how patients and caregivers participate in care planning.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Education and Navigation Support Tool (ENST)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this program could help patients and caregivers feel more in control and better coordinate care for advanced bladder cancer.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study focused on support, not a treatment. It may not show clear benefits or be widely applicable.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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12 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jan 2024
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * PATIENTS: Age ≥ 18 years * PATIENTS: Metastatic or locally advanced, unresectable bladder cancer * PATIENTS: Receiving or planning to receive systemic therapy for bladder cancer at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (RPCCC) * PATIENTS: Subjects can be enrolled any time from initial diagnosis of advanced disease to within 8 weeks after initiation of first-line systemic therapy for advanced bladder cancer * PATIENTS: Able to speak, understand, read, and write English * CAREGIVERS: Age ≥ 18 years * CAREGIVERS: Only caregivers of enrolled patients will be included in the study * CAREGIVERS: Should be able to speak, understand, read, and write English * CAREGIVERS: Caregivers will be enrolled in the study during the same time window as for patient enrollment (from initial visit to within 8 weeks of patients starting frontline therapy) Exclusion Criteria: * PATIENTS: Not receiving any form of systemic therapy for bladder cancer due to Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) \> 3, co-morbidities, or inadequate organ function * PATIENTS: Predominantly small cell histology * PATIENTS: Adults with impaired decision-making capacity, assessed by the study team to be unable to participate in ENST-based education and surveys * PATIENTS: Pregnant women * CAREGIVERS: Cognitively impaired adults/adults with impaired decision-making capacity * CAREGIVERS: Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, New York, 14263, United States
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