About this trial
In this phase II study, eligible patients will be treated with maximal tumor resection and then started treatment within 8 weeks. Chemotherapy, Nivolumab and radiotherapy (RT) will be started on day one. Chemotherapy will be administered weekly during radiotherapy. Radiotherapy will be performed from Monday to Friday for five weeks. Nivolumab will be administered for one year (13 infusions).
Patients will have the complete tumour assessment by computed tomography scan (CT-scan) and cystoscopy up to 5 years after radiotherapy.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
18 years old or older
Histologic diagnosis of predominantly urothelial carcinoma of the bladder. Focal differentiation allowed other than small cell histology.
Stage T2-T3 N0M0 (AJCC-TNM version 6) based on trans-urethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT), CT or MRI imaging, +/- bimanual examination under anaesthesia.
FDG-PET within 6 weeks from the start of treatments, showing no evidence of lymph nodes or metastatic disease.
Disqualifiers
Prior systemic therapy for other urothelial tumours.
Prior RT to the pelvis
Treatment with any other investigational agent or participation in another clinical trial with therapeutic intent within 28 days or five half-lives of the drug, whichever is longer, prior to enrolment.
Patients with localized lower risk prostate cancer (defined as Stage ≤T2b, Gleason score ≤ 7, and PSA at prostate cancer diagnosis ≤ 20 ng/mL [if measured]) treated with radical prostatectomy and without prostate-specific antigen (PSA) recurrence are eligible.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Nivolumab
- Nab paclitaxel
- Cisplatin
- Radiotherapy