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Testing the Role of DNA Released From Tumor Cells Into the Blood in Guiding the Use of Immunotherapy After Surgical Removal of the Bladder, Kidney, Ureter, and Urethra for Urothelial Cancer Treatment, MODERN Study

Eligible age

18+ yrs

Accepts

All genders

Locations

48 states

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About this study

This phase II/III trial examines whether patients who have undergone surgical removal of bladder, kidney, ureter or urethra, but require an additional treatment called immunotherapy to help prevent their urinary tract (urothelial) cancer from coming back, can be identified by a blood test. Many types of tumors tend to lose cells or release different types of cellular products including their DNA which is referred to as circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) into the bloodstream before changes can be seen on scans. Health care providers can measure the level of ctDNA in blood or other bodily fluids to determine which patients are at higher risk for disease progression or relapse. In this study, a blood test is used to measure ctDNA and see if there is still cancer somewhere in the body after surgery and if giving a treatment will help eliminate the cancer. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab and relatlimab, can help the body's immune system to attack the cancer, and can interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. This trial may help doctors determine if ctDNA measurement in blood can better identify patients that need additional treatment, if treatment with nivolumab prolongs patients' life and whether the additional immunotherapy treatment with relatlimab extends time without disease progression or prolongs life of urothelial cancer patients who have undergone surgical removal of their bladder, kidney, ureter or urethra.

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

You may qualify if…

✓ PRE-REGISTRATION (STEP 0): Histologically confirmed muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the urethra, bladder, ureter or renal pelvis
✓ PRE-REGISTRATION (STEP 0): Variant histology, including neuroendocrine differentiation, sarcomatoid, micropapillary, glandular, trophoblastic, Mullerian, is allowed if urothelial cancer is predominant histology (any amount of squamous differentiation is allowed provided the tumor is not a pure squamous cell cancer)
✓ PRE-REGISTRATION (STEP 0): Radical surgery (cystectomy with lymph node dissection or nephroureterectomy or ureterectomy) must be ≥ 3 weeks and ≤ 12 weeks (central Signatera pathway) or ≤ 16 weeks (commercial Signatera pathwary) prior to pre-registration. Patients who have had a partial cystectomy as definitive therapy are not eligible
✓ PRE-REGISTRATION (STEP 0): Patients who have had a partial cystectomy as definitive therapy are not eligible
✓ PRE-REGISTRATION (STEP 0): No gross cancer at the surgical margins. Microscopic invasive urothelial carcinoma at the surgical margins (i.e., "positive margins") are allowed. Carcinoma in situ (CIS) at margins is considered negative margins
✓ PRE-REGISTRATION (STEP 0): No evidence of residual cancer or metastasis after radical cystectomy or nephroureterectomy or ureterectomy (imaging is not required prior to pre-registration but is required prior to registration)
✓ PRE-REGISTRATION (STEP 0): Have undergone a radical cystectomy nephroureterectomy, or ureterectomy with pathological evidence of urothelial carcinoma at high risk of recurrence as described in one of the two scenarios below (i or ii). The 7th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging will be utilized.:
✓ (i) Patients who have not received neoadjuvant systemic therapy: pT4N0 or pTanyN+ on radical surgery pathology specimen (i.e., cystectomy, nephroureterectomy, or ureterectomy) and are not eligible for adjuvant cisplatin chemotherapy