NORTH-REG Dwell-Time Study

Last updated: June 24, 2024
Sponsor: Jørgen Bjerggaard Jensen
Overall Status: Active - Not Recruiting

Phase

4

Condition

N/A

Treatment

Bacillus Calmette Guerin

Clinical Study ID

NCT04701151
2020-003112-27
  • Ages > 18
  • All Genders
  • Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Summary

Previous studies show that the majority NMIBC patients experience side effects to BCG and therefore terminate the instillations before completing all planned instillations. This will increase their risk of recurrence and potential cystectomy. The purpose of this study is to investigate if NMIBC patients who experience severe side effects to BCG instillations will experience fewer or less severe side effects if reducing dwell-time of BCG instillations.

The study will include patients from Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

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 plannedfor 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 trialprotocol

  • Ability to understand the Patient Information Sheet orally and in writing

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Previous BCG instillations within the last 2 years, because of the risk of nothaving 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 cystectomyirrespectievely of indication or development of metastatic urothelial cancerirrespectively of tumour stage

  • Contraindications to BCG

  • Incontinence

  • Bilateral nephrostomy catheters; unilateral nephrostomy catheter is allowed ifpermanent for the duration of all inistallations with BCG and a normally functioningkidney.

  • 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 andprotate 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'sability to participate

  • Has participated in another interventional clinical study and treatment with anotherinvestigational product 30 days prior to randomization

  • For women study subjects: Pregnancy or breastfeeding

  • For women Study subjects of childbearing potential: unless they are using highlyeffective methods of contraception from the first BCG instillations until 14 daysafter last dose of BCG treatment, which are defined as total abstinence, femalesterilization, use of oral methods of contraception or placement of an intrauterinecontraception devices.

  • For male Study Subjects: unless they are using highly effective methods ofcontraception from the first BCG instillation until for 14 days after last dose ofBCG treatment, which is defined as total abstinence or use of condoms.

Study Design

Total Participants: 314
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: Bacillus Calmette Guerin
Phase: 4
Study Start date:
February 03, 2021
Estimated Completion Date:
December 31, 2030

Study Description

Approximately 8,000 patients are diagnosed with bladder cancer (BC) in the Nordic countries every year. The majority of BC patients are diagnosed with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). The majority of NMIBC are treated with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) as adjuvant treatment but for carcinoma in situ it is the primary treatment. BCG is known to give a lot of side effects both local and systemic, the severity of these can lead to premature termination of the treatment.

The object of this PhD project is to investigate if reduced dwell time, the time the BCG is in the bladder, will decrease the severity of side effects due to BCG instillations.

This will be investigated in a Nordic setting and the project will be done as a two-armed randomized clinical trial.

By decreasing the severity of side effects, we hypothesize the number of patients completing all planned instillations will increase and thereby decrease the risk of the BC evolving into a more aggressive type.

Connect with a study center

  • Aarhus University Hospital

    Aarhus, Aarhus N 8200
    Denmark

    Site Not Available

  • Department of Urology, Aalborg University Hospital

    Aalborg, 9100
    Denmark

    Site Not Available

  • Herlev Hospital

    Herlev,
    Denmark

    Site Not Available

  • Regional Hospital Gødstrup

    Herning, 7400
    Denmark

    Site Not Available

  • Regional Hospital West Jutland

    Holstebro, 7500
    Denmark

    Site Not Available

  • Department of Urology, Rigshospitalet

    København, 2100
    Denmark

    Site Not Available

  • Odense University Hospital

    Odense, 5000
    Denmark

    Site Not Available

  • Zealand University Hospital

    Roskilde, 4000
    Denmark

    Site Not Available

  • Landspitali University Hospital

    Reykjavík, 101
    Iceland

    Site Not Available

  • Vestfold Hospital

    Tønsberg, NO-3116
    Norway

    Site Not Available

  • PO Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset

    Göteborg, sw 413 45
    Sweden

    Site Not Available

  • Karolinska University Hospital

    Stockholm, 141-86
    Sweden

    Site Not Available

  • Örebro University Hospital

    Örebro, 701 85
    Sweden

    Site Not Available

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