New bladder gel could help patients avoid bladder removal surgery
NCT ID NCT07468851
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Sep 04, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests a new treatment called HS-10566, a gel that delivers the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine directly into the bladder. It is for people with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who cannot or choose not to have their bladder removed. The trial will check if the treatment is safe, tolerable, and effective at controlling the cancer. About 180 adults will take part in this early-phase study.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- HS-10566 (a gel that delivers the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine directly into the bladder)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a bladder-sparing treatment option for patients with high-risk bladder cancer who cannot or choose not to have their bladder removed.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-phase trial (Phase 1/2) with a small number of participants, so safety and effectiveness are not yet proven. The treatment may not work for everyone and could cause side effects from the chemotherapy.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1/2
Runs two stages together: safety and dose first, then whether the treatment works.
- Participants
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About 180 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Aug 2026
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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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: 1. Men or women aged greater than or equal to (≥) 18 years. 2. Signed informed consent form. 3. Histologically confirmed non-muscle-invasive bladder urothelial carcinoma (i.e., transitional cell carcinoma). Mixed tumor types predominantly consisting of urothelial carcinoma are eligible. Patients diagnosed with neuroendocrine, micropapillary, signet-ring cell, plasmacytoid, or sarcomatoid features are excluded. 4. Patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) who have undergone prior transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) and who refuse or are ineligible for radical cystectomy, and meet one of the following two populations: 1. Patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (HR-NMIBC) who are unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy after prior TURBT, and who refuse or are ineligible for radical cystectomy. BCG unresponsive is defined as occurrence of any one of the following in NMIBC patients after adequate BCG therapy (at least 5 full dose inductions and at least 2 maintenance instillations of BCG): * Persistent or recurrent CIS within 12 months after adequate BCG therapy, with or without recurrence of high-grade Ta or T1 tumors; * Recurrence of high-grade Ta/T1 tumors within 6 months after adequate BCG therapy; * Recurrence of high-grade T1 tumors at the first assessment during maintenance therapy after BCG induction. 2. Patients who have not received BCG therapy after prior TURBT, including the following three scenarios: * NMIBC patients who failed intravesical chemotherapy, and who have not received BCG. * HR-NMIBC patients who have not received BCG therapy after TURBT. * HR-NMIBC patients who received prior BCG therapy but discontinued treatment for more than 3 years before enrollment. 5. Participants must have undergone TURBT within 12 weeks prior to signing informed consent and meet the following criteria: 1. For papillary lesions (Ta and T1 stages): complete resection of all visible papillary lesions, with negative urine cytology (including atypical findings). 2. For patients with CIS: residual unresectable CIS lesions are permitted. 6. Sufficient bone marrow reserve and adequate hepatic/renal function. 7. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score 0-1. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Histopathologically confirmed muscle invasive (pathologic T stage ≥ T2), locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic urothelial carcinoma. 2. Urothelial carcinoma outside the bladder (e.g., urethra, ureter, renal pelvis) unless radically resected with no disease recurrence for \> 2 years. 3. History of other primary solid tumors, except: 1. Radically treated solid tumor with no activity for ≥5 years before enrollment and low recurrence risk; 2. adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer (e.g., basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma) or lentigo maligna with no evidence of recurrence; 3. adequately treated carcinoma in situ (e.g., cervical, ductal carcinoma in situ of breast) with no evidence of recurrence. 4. Has received or is receiving any of the following treatments: 1. Regular intravesical chemotherapy (gemcitabine, pirarubicin, mitomycin, etc.) or BCG instillation intolerance following TURBT/bladder biopsy before enrollment. 2. Pelvic radiotherapy within 4 weeks prior to first study treatment. Patients with last radiotherapy \>4 weeks prior and no confirmed radiation cystitis may be enrolled. 3. Major surgery (TURBT is not considered major surgery) within 4 weeks before first study treatment, or incomplete recovery from postoperative complications. 4. Systemic chemotherapy, small-molecule targeted therapy, or investigational therapy within 4 weeks before first study treatment. 5. Device-assisted chemotherapy (e.g. TAR-200) 5. Residual toxicity ≥ Grade 2 per CTCAE version 6.0 from prior therapy (surgery, intravesical instillation, etc.), except alopecia, pigmentation. 6. Bladder or urethral anatomical features that may interfere with HS-10566 implantation, retention, or removal (e.g., urethral stricture, bladder diverticulum, total urinary incontinence, bladder perforation). 7. Current or history of clinically significant polyuria (24-hour urine output \>4000 mL). 8. Requirement for long-term indwelling urinary catheter during study treatment (e.g., urinary obstruction). 9. Intermittent catheterization for clinical indications is allowed.
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Conditions
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital
RECRUITINGNanjing, 210008, China
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Peking University First Hospital
RECRUITINGBeijing, 100034, China
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