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Can a shorter bladder cancer treatment time cut side effects?

NCT ID NCT04701151

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study looks at whether reducing the time BCG stays in the bladder (dwell-time) can lessen severe side effects in people with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. About 314 patients from Nordic countries will either get the standard dwell-time or a shorter one based on their side effect severity. The goal is to help more patients complete their full treatment plan and lower the chance of cancer coming back.

What this could mean

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Active substance
Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)
What this could lead to
If it works, this could offer a way to manage severe side effects from BCG therapy, helping more patients finish their full treatment course and potentially reduce cancer recurrence.
What could go wrong
This is a phase 4 study focused on side effects, not on proving the treatment works better. Reducing dwell-time might not ease side effects for everyone, and it could still affect how well the BCG fights the cancer.

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Study facts

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

Phase

Phase 4

Runs after approval, following long-term safety and how well the treatment works in everyday use.

Participants

About 314 people

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

Started

Feb 2021

Expected to finish

Dec 2030

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

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

18 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Accepted

You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.

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Inclusion Criteria: * ≥18 years of age at the time of signing the Informed Consent Form * Signed Informed Consent Form * Patients with NMIBC where BCG therapy including maintenance for 1 year is planned for one of the following histopathological findings: * Ta high grade without CIS * CIS with or without previous or concomitant Ta tumors * T1 with or without CIS * Is, according to the Investigator's judgement, able to comply with the trial protocol * Ability to understand the Patient Information Sheet orally and in writing Exclusion Criteria: * Previous BCG instillations within the last 2 years, because of the risk of not having cleared potential previos side effects. * T1 tumors where re-resection had not been performed * TUR-B, bladder biopsy or traumatic catheterization within 2 weeks. * Previous or current MIBC * Progression defined as progrssion to T1-tumour, T2+\_tumour or cystectomy irrespectievely of indication or development of metastatic urothelial cancer irrespectively of tumour stage * Contraindications to BCG * Incontinence * Bilateral nephrostomy catheters; unilateral nephrostomy catheter is allowed if permanent for the duration of all inistallations with BCG and a normally functioning kidney. * Need for catheter a demeure at the time of instillation * Immune Suppressing medication (cancer therapy e.g cytostatic medicinal products, radiation, local and systemic steroids like e.g. prednisolone is permitted) * Reduced immune response (leukaemia, lymphoma) * Known allergy or sensitivity to BCG * HIV infection * Signs of active tuberculosis * Any type of previosly radiation therapy involving the bladder. * Concomitant invasive cancer within 5 years other than non-melanoma skin cancer and protate cancer without metastasis * Current urinary tract infection * Patient with visible hematuria * Current alcohol and/or drug abuse * Has a mental or legal incapacitation or another condition which impair the subject's ability to participate * Has participated in another interventional clinical study and treatment with another investigational product 30 days prior to randomization * For women study subjects: Pregnancy or breastfeeding * For women Study subjects of childbearing potential: unless they are using highly effective methods of contraception from the first BCG instillations until 14 days after last dose of BCG treatment, which are defined as total abstinence, female sterilization, use of oral methods of contraception or placement of an intrauterine contraception devices. * For male Study Subjects: unless they are using highly effective methods of contraception from the first BCG instillation until for 14 days after last dose of BCG treatment, which is defined as total abstinence or use of condoms.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Aarhus University Hospital

    Aarhus, Aarhus N, 8200, Denmark

  • Department of Urology, Aalborg University Hospital

    Aalborg, 9100, Denmark

  • Department of Urology, Rigshospitalet

    Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark

  • Herlev Hospital

    Herlev, Denmark

  • Karolinska University Hospital

    Stockholm, 141-86, Sweden

  • Landspitali University Hospital

    Reykjavik, 101, Iceland

  • Odense University Hospital

    Odense, 5000, Denmark

  • PO Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset

    Gothenburg, sw 413 45, Sweden

  • Regional Hospital Gødstrup

    Herning, 7400, Denmark

  • Zealand University Hospital

    Roskilde, 4000, Denmark

  • Örebro University Hospital

    Örebro, 701 85, Sweden

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