drugset / Trial / NCT00445601

S0337, Gemcitabine After Surgery in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Bladder Cancer

NCT00445601 ↗

RandomizedParallel-groupQuadruple-blindTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving gemcitabine directly into the bladder after surgery may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known whether giving gemcitabine directly into the bladder is more effective than a placebo in treating bladder cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying gemcitabine to see how well it works when given directly into the bladder compared with a placebo after surgery in treating patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent bladder cancer.

Timeline

Start
2007-09
Primary completion
2017-06
Completion
2017-06

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

registry analysis (superiority test); Arm I vs Arm II; p = 0.01; Hazard Ratio (HR) 0.66 (95% CI 0.48 to 0.90); Log Rank NCT00445601 ↗

paper 67 of 201 patients (4-year estimate, 35%) in the gemcitabine group and 91 of 205 patients (4-year estimate, 47%) in the saline group had cancer recurrence PMID 29801011 ↗

paper hazard ratio, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.48-0.90; P<.001 by 1-sided log-rank test for time to recurrence PMID 29801011 ↗

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Gemcitabine Small molecule 2 g Intravenous