This clinical trial studies whether a decision tool can be used to help select women with urothelial bladder cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body (localized) for reproductive organ sparing-radical cystectomy (ROS-RC). The current standard of care (SOC) for women with bladder cancer is radical cystectomy (RC). SOC-RC involves removing the bladder, pelvic lymph nodes, as well as reproductive organs including the anterior vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries. Routine removal of these reproductive organs has been associated with increased postoperative complications and can have many impacts on quality of life, including sexual health, mental decline, and depression. ROS-RC does not include the removal of the reproductive organs. The decision tool is a flow of standardized questions that the treating physician answers to decide which patients will or will not undergo ROS-RC. The treating physician uses a pelvic exam using two hands to feel the bladder (bimanual exam), an endoscopic examination of the urinary bladder (cystoscopy), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to answer the questions to the decision tool. The decision tool may help the treating physician identify women with localized urothelial bladder cancer at low risk of adjacent organ involvement who can then be selected to undergo ROS-RC. This may help improve quality of life.
Study sponsor and potential other locations can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT06184516.
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United States
Florida
Gainesville
UF Health Cancer Institute - GainesvilleStatus: Active
Contact: Tarik Benidir
Phone: 352-273-8634
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. Determine if ROS-RC completed based on decision tool results in acceptable surgical margin status.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Evaluate sexual function in women undergoing ROS-RC and RC.
II. Evaluate quality of life in women undergoing ROS-RC and RC.
III. Evaluate local and distant recurrence in women undergoing ROS-RC and RC.
IV. Evaluate the incidence of adjacent pelvic organ involvement in women undergoing RC deemed “unfavorable” based on decision tool.
V. Evaluate the ability of staging MRI of the pelvis to predict extravesicular disease and adjacent pelvic organ involvement.
OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 arms.
ARM I: Patients undergo RC screening with the decision tool. Patients found to have low risk of adjacent organ involvement based on the decision tool undergo ROS-RC on study. Additionally, patients undergo bimanual examination, cystoscopy, and chest radiography (x-ray) or computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during screening, as well as additional CT scans during follow up.
ARM II: Patients undergo RC screening with the decision tool. Patients found to have high risk of adjacent organ involvement based on the decision tool undergo SOC-RC on study. Additionally, patients undergo bimanual examination, cystoscopy, and chest x-ray or CT or MRI during screening, as well as additional CT scans during follow up.
After completion of study intervention, patients are followed up 3, 6 and 12 months, and then either annually or every 6 months thereafter.
Trial PhaseNo phase specified
Trial Typetreatment
Lead OrganizationUF Health Cancer Institute - Gainesville
Principal InvestigatorTarik Benidir