The efficacy of trimodal chemoradiotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin as a bladder-preserving strategy for the treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer: A single-arm prospective study.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (6_suppl) ◽  
pp. 516-516
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Matsumoto ◽  
Kazuhiro Nagao ◽  
Sho Ozawa ◽  
Masahiro Samoto ◽  
Junichi Mori ◽  
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516 Background: Radical cystectomy is still the standard treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), while the patients with MIBC are not always appropriate candidates due to multiple comorbidities. We establish novel treatment strategy by trimodal treatment. Methods: The regimen was gemcitabine 300 mg/m2, and cisplatin 30mg/m2 in day 1 and concomitant irradiation 2Gy/Fr, 5 fraction per week. Irradiation was administered to whole pelvis up to 30Gy, then boost to true pelvis until total 48Gy to 54Gy. Extensive transurethral resection (TURBT) was performed and we confirmed pathological stage ≥T2. TURBT was also performed after chemoradiotherapy to evaluate the pathological response to treatment. This study was approved in our institutional review board (ID: H23-89) and the information was opened on UMIN (ID: UMIN000006363). We analyzed their treatment efficacy and survival. Results: The patients were 29 men and 9 women, median age was 76.5 y.o. and median follow up was 23 months (1 - 112). Clinical stage T2, T3, T4, N1 and N2 were 23, 10, 5, 4, 2 cases, respectively. The 2- and 5-year metastatic-free survival (MFS), bladder-recurrence free survival (bRFS), cancer-specific survival (CSS), and overall survival (OS) rates after treatment were 91.7 and 84.0%, 59.7 and 42.6%, 87.3 and 87.3%, and 87.3 and 81.8%, respectively. Salvage cystectomy was performed 3 patients and they were still alive. CR rate was 78.9% and overall response rate was 92.1%. cT stage and valiant histology was not associated with treatment response. The patients achieved CR had significant good prognosis in CSS (p=0.0149) and OS (p=0.0149) compared with non-responders. In cox hazard model, CR achievement was significant prognostic factors for OS (p =0.0015, HR 6.804e+26, 95% CI 56.94-1.631e+86). Patients were able to receive 3 to 5 cycle GC radiation and any grade 3 or more adverse event was 7 (18.4%) cases. no treatment related death was recorded. Conclusions: In selected patients, GC radiation for MIBC may provide good oncological outcomes as bladder preservation strategy.

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0257195
Author(s):  
Tim Muilwijk ◽  
Murat Akand ◽  
Sofie Daelemans ◽  
Koen Marien ◽  
Yannick Waumans ◽  
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Fibroblast activation protein-α (FAP) is a transmembrane peptidase and a surrogate marker for cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). FAP has been linked to worse prognosis and therapy resistance in several cancers. We hypothesised that FAP might have a prognostic 3biomarker potential to stratify patients with high-grade (HG) T1 non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). We selected 30 patients with HG T1 NMIBC that progressed to ≥T2 disease which were pair-matched based on CUETO progression score variables with 90 patients that did not progress. After revision a final cohort of 86 patients was retained. Slides were stained for FAP, the luminal marker GATA3 and the basal marker CK5. All HG T1 tumour regions of interest (ROIs) within each patient were annotated, analysed and scored using image analysis software. FAP expression in HG T1 ROIs was significantly higher in progressors vs. non-progressors and was prognostic for recurrence-free survival, progression-free survival, cancer-specific survival, and overall survival. FAP expression in HG T1 ROIs remained strongly prognostic for these outcomes in a bivariable model corrected for adequate BCG per FDA definition. Expression of GATA3 and CK5 did not differ between progressors vs. non-progressors, and were not prognostic for these outcomes. FAP might serve as an easily applicable prognostic biomarker to risk-stratify patients with HG T1 NMIBC if these results are prospectively validated in a larger series.


2015 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengjie Liang ◽  
Qingsong Zou ◽  
Bangmin Han ◽  
Yifeng Jing ◽  
Di Cui ◽  
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Purpose: To assess the efficacy of intra-arterial chemotherapy as a bladder-preservation treatment in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) following transurethral resection of bladder tumors (TURBT). Materials and Methods: From 2005 June to 2012 November, 46 patients diagnosed with MIBC (clinical stage T2-T3N0M0) underwent three courses of cisplatin-based intra-arterial chemotherapy as a remedial approach for bladder preservation after TURBT. All patients also received intravesical instillation of chemotherapy as a maintenance strategy. Results: All 46 patients completed the treatment with minor complications. The median follow-up time was 34.5 months (range, 8-87 months). Thirty-two patients (69.6%) demonstrated complete response. The three-year and five-year overall survival was 70.65 and 61.23%, and the disease-specific survival over the same periods was 78.03 and 67.62%, respectively. During the entire follow-up period, more than 80% preserved their bladder. Conclusions: Intra-arterial chemotherapy can be performed as a remedial treatment for MIBC patient following TURBT. Combined with TURBT, it offers an option for bladder preservation therapy on patients who are unable or unwilling to undergo radical cystectomy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e16029-e16029
Author(s):  
Tamer Dafashy ◽  
Daniel Phillips ◽  
Yong Shan ◽  
Hogan K Hudgins ◽  
Usama Jazzar ◽  
...  

e16029 Background: Radical cystectomy is the guideline-recommended treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer; however, use of trimodal therapy, which utilizes a combination of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, has increased in recent years with conflicting survival outcomes. Methods: Utilizing data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database, a total of 2,963 patients aged 66 years or older diagnosed with clinical stage T2-4a bladder cancer from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2011 were analyzed. Conventional regression, propensity score matching (PSM) and inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) were used to compare radical cystectomy and trimodal therapy for overall and cancer-specific survival, and cost. Results: Patients who underwent TMT had significantly decreased overall (conventional regression: Hazard Ratio (HR) 1.54, 95% Confidence Interval (CI), 1.39-1.71; PSM: HR 1.49, 95% CI 1.31-1.69; IPTW: HR 1.54, 95% CI 1.39-1.71) and cancer-specific (conventional regression: HR 1.51, 95% CI 1.40-1.63; PSM: HR 1.55, 95% CI 1.32-1.83; IPTW: HR 1.51, 95% CI 1.40-1.63) survival. Median total costs were significantly higher with trimodal therapy than with radical cystectomy at 6-month ($171,401 vs. $99,890, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Using population-based data and different analytic methods to control for imbalance between study groups, we found that trimodal therapy was associated with decreased overall and cancer-specific survival at increased costs compared to radical cystectomy.


2005 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-223
Author(s):  
P. Tombolini ◽  
M. Ruoppolo ◽  
G. Dormia ◽  
E. Dormia

Partial cystectomy has been widely performed in the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer in the 1960s and 70s. During the 1970s and 80s a more aggressive surgical approach was advocated by urologists. However, major complications occurred in 4–25% of patients undergoing radical cystectomy and urinary diversion. The overall survival in patients managed by radical cystectomy has increased during the last decades, but disease-free survival remains the same. This procedure allows excellent loco-regional tumor control, but not changes in the timing of distant metastases and in the failure to control the disease. Recently, multimodal strategies in sparing bladder surgery have been proposed. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy, with or without irradiation, allows bladder sparing surgery in selected patients. A literature review demonstrates a later recurrence in the preserved bladder ranging from 40–75%. One-third of these recurrences required cystectomy and 15–20% of cases with bladder preservation experienced disease progression and died of cancer within 2 yrs. Only 40 and 20% of T2-T3 bladder cancer patients are alive and disease-free at 5 and 10 yrs of follow-up, respectively. In our experience, in selected patients, disease-free survival, overall survival, time to progression and final bladder preservation rate was higher compared to other patients. Bladder sparing in selected patients, i.e. single non-recurrent neoplasm, favorable site, no prostatic or urethral involvement, complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, no P53 overexpression, no previous BCG-failure, is a feasible approach. Cystectomy, possibly with neobladder tailoring, is currently, the standard therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. A better understanding of bladder tumor disease is necessary to choose the optimal treatment and to control each individual patient.


2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
V. Vukotic ◽  
M. Lazic ◽  
S. Savic ◽  
S. Cerovic ◽  
D. Kojic

Muscle invasive bladder cancer is usually treated by radical cystectomy, but in some selected cases with solitary tumor with appropriate localization partial cystectomy can be the treatment of choice achieving long term results with bladder preservation. We reviewed records of 11 patients which were treated in 5 year period from June 2002 to June 2007. by partial cystectomy according to the size of the tumor, localization, histology, multifocality, pathological and clinical stage, sex, and age. Male: female ratio was 6:5, mean age of the patients being 64.9 years. All patients bur one had solitary lesions located in the bladder dome in 4, on lateral sides in 5,2 patients had a tumor in diverticulum. TCC gr II was diagnosed 6 pts, TCC gr III in 5. One patient died in a year from disease progression, one from other reason, while all other patients are alive and disease free, the longest disease free interval being 3 years. Bladder capacity is adequate in all patients resulting in good quality of life .Our results suggest that in selected patients cancer control can be achieved with partial cystectomy.


2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
Young Deuk Choi ◽  
Kang Su Cho ◽  
Soung Yong Cho ◽  
Hyun Min Choi ◽  
Nam Hoon Cho

BMC Cancer ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Makito Miyake ◽  
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Kota Iida ◽  
Nobutaka Nishimura ◽  
Tatsuki Miyamoto ◽  
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Abstract Background To explore possible solutions to overcome chronic Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) shortage affecting seriously the management of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in Europe and throughout the world, we investigated whether non-maintenance eight-dose induction BCG (iBCG) was comparable to six-dose iBCG plus maintenance BCG (mBCG). Methods This observational study evaluated 2669 patients with high- or highest-risk NMIBC who treated with iBCG with or without mBCG during 2000–2019. The patients were classified into five groups according to treatment pattern: 874 (33%) received non-maintenance six-dose iBCG (Group A), 405 (15%) received six-dose iBCG plus mBCG (Group B), 1189 (44%) received non-maintenance seven−/eight-dose iBCG (Group C), 60 (2.2%) received seven−/eight-dose iBCG plus mBCG, and 141 (5.3%) received only ≤5-dose iBCG. Recurrence-free survival (RFS), progression-free survival, and cancer-specific survival were estimated and compared using Kaplan–Meier analysis and the log-rank test, respectively. Propensity score-based one-to-one matching was performed using a multivariable logistic regression model based on covariates to obtain balanced groups. To eliminate possible immortal bias, 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-month conditional landmark analyses of RFS were performed. Results RFS comparison confirmed that mBCG yielded significant benefit following six-dose iBCG (Group B) in recurrence risk reduction compared to iBCG alone (groups A and C) before (P < 0.001 and P = 0.0016, respectively) and after propensity score matching (P = 0.001 and P = 0.0074, respectively). Propensity score-matched sequential landmark analyses revealed no significant differences between groups B and C at 12, 18, and 24 months, whereas landmark analyses at 6 and 12 months showed a benefit of mBCG following six-dose iBCG compared to non-maintenance six-dose iBCG (P = 0.0055 and P = 0.032, respectively). There were no significant differences in the risks of progression and cancer-specific death in all comparisons of the matched cohorts. Conclusions Although non-maintenance eight-dose iBCG was inferior to six-dose iBCG plus mBCG, the former might be an alternative remedy in the BCG shortage era. To overcome this challenge, further investigation is warranted to confirm the real clinical value of non-maintenance eight-dose iBCG.


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