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A Study of Intravesical BCG in Combination With ALT-803 in Patients With Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of BCG (50mg/instillation) + N-803 (400 μg/instillation) and BCG (50mg/instillation) in Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, sponsored by ImmunityBio, Inc.. Active, not recruiting at 108 sites in 3 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-03-31.

Sponsored by ImmunityBio, Inc. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
369
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a Phase Ib/IIb, randomized, two-cohort, open-label, multicenter study of intravesical N-803 plus BCG versus BCG alone, in BCG naïve patients with high-grade NMIBC.

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The study includes a dose escalation phase (phase Ib) and an expansion phase (phase IIb).

In the phase Ib, patients will be treated with intravesical N-803 in combination with BCG. The purpose of the phase Ib portion of the study is to evaluate the safety, identify the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) of N-803 and determine the Recommended Dose (RD) level of N-803 in combination with BCG for the phase IIb expansion.

In the phase IIb expansion, patients will be randomized to receive either intravesical N-803 in combination with BCG or BCG alone. Patients will be enrolled into one of two study cohorts (Cohort A and Cohort B). These will be two independent study cohorts, evaluated separately for treatment efficacy.

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Conditions studied

  • Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

Keywords

  • antitumor
  • BCG
  • bladder cancer
  • cancer
  • immunotherapy
  • instillation
  • interleukin-15
  • intravesical
  • naive
  • non-muscle invasive
  • transitional cell carcinoma
  • ALT-803
  • N-803
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In context

Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Neoplasms

265 studies on the registry are indexed under Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Neoplasms; 113 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 369 is above the median of 70 across 204 interventional studies indexed under Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

ImmunityBio, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 82 studies on the registry; 15 are open to participants now.

Of its 23 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 17 (74%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Histologic confirmation of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer of the transitional cell carcinoma high-grade subtype (mixed histology tumors allowed if transitional cell histology is predominant histology).

    1. Cohort A: Histologically confirmed CIS (with or without Ta/T1 disease); Cohort B: Histologically confirmed high-grade papillary disease (Ta/T1 only).
    2. Patients are eligible if the diagnostic biopsy was done within 3 months of treatment start and a cystoscopy demonstrating no resectable disease was done within 6 calendar weeks (inclusive of 48 days) of treatment start (residual CIS is acceptable; patients with T1 disease must undergo repeat resection if muscularis propria is not present in each biopsy sample). Patients with high-grade Ta and/or T1 disease should have complete resection before study treatment.
    3. Upper tract imaging within 6 months prior to study entry must not be suspicious for upper tract malignancy.
  2. Currently eligible for intravesical BCG therapy.
  3. Age ≥ 18 years.
  4. Performance status: ECOG performance status of 0, 1, or 2.
  5. BCG-naive disease as defined as either of the following:

    1. Have not received prior intravesical BCG; or
    2. Previously received BCG, but stopped receiving more than 3 years before date of randomization.
  6. Laboratory tests performed within 21 days of treatment start:

    1. Absolute lymphocyte count ≥ Institutional lower limit of normal
    2. Absolute neutrophil count (AGC/ANC) ≥ 1,000/μL
    3. Platelets ≥ 100,000/µL [Patients may be transfused to meet this requirement]
    4. Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/dL [Patients may be transfused to meet this requirement]
    5. Calculated glomerular filtration rate (GFR*) >40 mL/min or Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN
    6. Total bilirubin ≤ 2.0 X ULN
    7. AST, ALT, ALP ≤ 3.0 X ULN
  7. Adequate pulmonary function without any clinical sign of severe pulmonary dysfunction. PFT > 50% FEV1 if clinically indicated by the investigator.
  8. Negative serum pregnancy test if female and of childbearing potential (non-childbearing is defined as greater than one year postmenopausal or surgically sterilized).
  9. Female participants of childbearing potential must adhere to using a medically accepted method of birth control prior to screening and agree to continue its use during the study or be surgically sterilized (e.g., hysterectomy or tubal ligation) and males must agree to use barrier methods of birth control while on study.
  10. Provide signed informed consent and HIPPA authorization and agree to comply with all protocol-specified procedures and follow-up evaluations.

    • using the following Cockcroft-Gault equation to calculate the eGFR for this study: eGFR in mL/min = {(140-age in years) x (weight in kg) x F}/(serum creatinine in mg/dL x 72) Where F =1 if male; and 0.85 if female

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria

  1. Prior BCG treatment or known hypersensitivity to BCG. Patients who have received more than a single-dose post-operative treatment of mitomycin-C or gemcitabine following the most recent screening TURBT/biopsy are excluded.
  2. Concurrent use of other investigational agents (not including FDA-authorized drugs for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19).
  3. History of or evidence of muscle-invasive, locally advanced, metastatic and/or extravesical bladder cancer or any other cancer within the past 5 years, except: adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, adequately treated stage 1 or 2 cancer from which the patient is currently in complete remission, or stable prostate cancer (under active surveillance or hormone control).
  4. Symptomatic congestive heart failure (CHF), NYHA (New York Heart Association) Class III or IV or other clinical signs of severe cardiac dysfunction.
  5. Severe/unstable angina pectoris, or myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to study entry.
  6. History or evidence of uncontrollable CNS disease.
  7. Known HIV-positive.
  8. Active systemic infection requiring parenteral antibiotic therapy. All prior infections must have resolved following optimal therapy.
  9. Concurrent febrile illness, active urinary tract infection, active tuberculosis, a history of hypotension or anaphylactic reactions.
  10. Ongoing chronic systemic steroid therapy required (>10 mg oral prednisone daily or equivalent).
  11. Women who are pregnant or nursing. Female patients of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test and must adhere to using a medically acceptable method of birth control prior to screening and agree to continue its use during the study and for 30 days after the last dose of study drug, or be surgically sterilized (e.g., hysterectomy or tubal ligation). Women of childbearing potential are defined as any female who has experienced menarche and who is NOT permanently sterile or postmenopausal. Postmenopausal is defined as 12 consecutive months with no menses without an alternative medical cause. Males must agree to use barrier methods of birth control while on study and for 90 days post last dose of study drug.
  12. Psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  13. Other illness that in the opinion of the investigator would exclude the patient from participating in this study.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
369 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    N-803+BCG

    (Phase Ib and IIb) for BCG-naive patients

    Biological: BCG (50mg/instillation) + N-803 (400 μg/instillation)

  • Active comparator
    BCG alone

    (Phase IIb) for BCG-naive patients

    Biological: BCG (50mg/instillation)

Interventions

  • BiologicalBCG (50mg/instillation) + N-803 (400 μg/instillation)

    BCG and N-803 will be mixed together (with saline) and administered via intravesical instillation weekly for 6 consecutive weeks for induction. Phase IIb includes maintenance treatment consisting of BCG+N-803 for 3 consecutive weeks at 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30 and 36 months. An additional 6-week re-induction of BCG+N-803 for patients with eligible disease at 3 months in phase IIb is included.

  • BiologicalBCG (50mg/instillation)

    BCG will be administered via intravesical instillation weekly for 6 consecutive weeks for induction. Phase IIb includes maintenance treatment consisting of BCG for 3 consecutive weeks at 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30 and 36 months. An additional 6-week re-induction of BCG for patients with eligible disease at 3 months in phase IIb is included.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Complete Response (CR) Rate

    Patients in Cohort A: compare complete response rate between treatment arms using cystoscopy, confirmatory bladder biopsy and urine cytology.

    Time frame: 6 Months

  2. Disease Free Survival (DFS)

    Patients in Cohort B: compare disease-free survival between treatment arms using cystoscopy, confirmatory bladder biopsy and urine cytology.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 Months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Progression-free survival (PFS)

    For phase IIb, Cohorts A \& B: Time from randomization to disease progression or death.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 Months

  2. Overall survival

    Time from randomization to death resulting from any cause to determine survival.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 months

  3. Disease specific survival

    For phase IIb, Cohorts A \& B: Time from randomization to death resulting from bladder cancer.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 months

  4. Time to disease worsening

    For phase IIb, Cohorts A \& B: Cystectomy or change in therapy indicative of more advanced disease, including systemic chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 Months

  5. Cystectomy Free Rate

    Cystectomy-free rate will be calculated for each treatment group as the ratio of the number of subjects who don't have documented cystectomy in the database divided by the number of subjects in the ITT (Intent to treat) population.

    Time frame: 13 years and 3 months

  6. Safety Profile: Number and severity of treatment emergent AEs [Time Frame: 39 Months]

    For phase Ib and phase IIb: Number of participants with TEAEs as assessed by CTCAE v4.03.

    Time frame: 39 Months

  7. Duration of Complete Response

    To assess the duration of CR of patients treated with N-803 plus BCG compared to patients treated with BCG alone.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 months

  8. Complete Response Rate( All Recurrent Bladder Cancer Including Low Grade Ta Disease)

    To assess the CR rate (all recurrent bladder cancer including low grade Ta disease) of patients treated with N-803 plus BCG compared to patients treated with BCG alone.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 months

  9. Long Term Complete Response Rate

    To assess the long-term CR rate (as determined by the Investigator) following completion of QUILT-2.005 phase 2b.

    Time frame: 13 years and 3 Months

  10. Duration of Complete Response ( All Recurrent Bladder Cancer Including Low Grade Ta Disease)

    Time from the date of first CR (All Recurrent bladder cancer including low grade Ta Disease) to the date of evidence that the subject no longer meets the definition for CR.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 months

  11. Cohort B: Disease Free Survival Rate

    To assess DFS rate at 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months. The time from randomization until recurrence of high-grade Ta (excluding low grade Ta) or any grade T1, CIS, disease progression, cystectomy, change in therapy indicative of more advance disease or death (any cause), whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: 36 Months

  12. Cohort B: Disease Free Survival

    DFS was assessed in the following groups: 1\) All recurrent bladder cancer, including low grade Ta disease the time from randomization until recurrence of any grade Ta (including low grade Ta) or any grade T1, CIS, disease progression, cystectomy, change in therapy indicative of more advanced disease, or death (any cause), whichever occurs first 2) Patients who have high-grade Ta, low-grade T1, or CIS at 3-months and received re-induction, and have no evidence of \> low-grade Ta disease at 6-months will be considered disease-free from randomization until a second recurrence \> low-grade Ta 3) Patients who have high-grade Ta, low-grade T1, or CIS at 3-months and received re-induction, and have no evidence of any disease (including low grade Ta) at 6-months will be considered disease-free from randomization until a second recurrence ≥ low grade Ta.

    Time frame: 13 Years and 3 Months

  13. Vital signs and clinical laboratory assessment

    Vital signs include heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, respiration rate, and body temperature. Labs include the following: complete blood count with differential, complete metabolic panel, and urinalysis.

    Time frame: 36 Months

  14. Long Term Follow Up(LTFU) data from subjects who were treated

    Yearly collection of LTFU data, which includes the following: survival status, bladder cancer status (high or low grade), cystoscopy results including number of cystoscopies done for each subject, biopsy results, upper tract evaluations, posttherapies and responses and outcomes of posttherapies, urine cytology results, and other medical history or treatments, if available, related to bladder cancer.

    Time frame: 10 Years after treatment period visits

Other outcomes

  1. Exploratory Endpoints- Immunogenicity: Serum level of anti-N-803 in patient samples

    For phase Ib and IIb Measures the serum level of anti-N-803 in patient samples.

    Time frame: 36 Months

  2. Quality of Life Endpoint

    Quality of Life (QoL) as assessed by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) questionnaires for patients with cancer (QLQ-C30) and for patients with NMIBC (QLQ-NMIBC24).

    Time frame: 39 Months

  3. Exploratory Endpoints- Whole Slide Images (Baseline and any on-study biopsy)

    For Phase IIb

    Time frame: 39 Months

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Study locations

108 sites
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Birmingham, Alabama 35294, United States
  • Alaska Clinical Research Center
    Anchorage, Alaska 99503, United States
  • Mayo Clinic
    Phoenix, Arizona 85054, United States
  • Center for Neurosciences
    Tucson, Arizona 85718, United States
  • Arkansas Urology
    Little Rock, Arkansas 72211, United States
  • Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
    Irvine, California 92618, United States
  • University of Southern California
    Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
  • UCLA Department of Urology
    Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
  • University of California, Irvine Medical Center
    Orange, California 92868, United States
  • University of California, Davis
    Sacramento, California 95817, United States
  • Golden State Urology
    Sacramento, California 95823, United States
  • University of California San Diego
    San Diego, California, United States
  • Skyline Sherman Oaks
    Sherman Oaks, California 91411, United States
  • Skyline Urology
    Torrance, California 90505, United States
  • Eastern Connecticut Hematology & Oncology Associates
    Norwich, Connecticut 06360, United States
  • Memorial Healthcare System
    Hollywood, Florida 33021, United States
  • Mayo Clinic
    Jacksonville, Florida 32224, United States
  • Advanced Urology Institute
    Oxford, Florida 34484, United States
  • Clinical Research Center of Florida
    Pompano Beach, Florida 33060, United States
  • Florida Urology Partners
    Riverview, Florida 33578, United States
  • Moffitt Cancer Center
    Tampa, Florida 33612, United States
  • Emory University
    Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
  • Georgia Urology
    Atlanta, Georgia 30328, United States
  • University of Hawaii Cancer Center
    Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, United States
  • Associated Urological Specialists
    Chicago, Illinois 60415, United States
  • Northwestern University
    Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
  • Rush University
    Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
  • UroPartners, LLC.
    Glenview, Illinois 60026, United States
  • Urology of Indiana
    Carmel, Indiana 46032, United States
  • Kansas University Medical Center
    Westwood, Kansas 66205, United States
  • Wichita Urology
    Wichita, Kansas 67226, United States
  • University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center
    Lexington, Kentucky 40508, United States
  • Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
    Metairie, Louisiana 70002, United States
  • Anne Arundel Urology
    Annapolis, Maryland 21401, United States
  • Greater Boston Urology
    Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360, United States
  • Karmanos Cancer Institute
    Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
  • Comprehensive Urology
    Royal Oak, Michigan 48703, United States
  • Mayo Clinic
    Rochester, Minnesota 55905, United States
  • Minnesota Urology
    Woodbury, Minnesota 55125, United States
  • Specialty Clinical Research of St. Louis
    St Louis, Missouri 63141, United States
  • Adult & Pediatric Urology
    Omaha, Nebraska 68114, United States
  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
    Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, United States
  • Summit Health
    Florham Park, New Jersey 07932, United States
  • Urology Group of New Mexico (AccumetRx Clinical Research)
    Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109, United States
  • Winthrop University Hospital
    Mineola, New York 11501, United States
  • Integrated Medical Professionals
    New York, New York 10016, United States
  • NYU Langone Health
    New York, New York 10016, United States
  • Premier Medical Group of the Hudson Valley
    Poughkeepsie, New York 12601, United States
  • Associated Medical Professionals of NY
    Syracuse, New York 13210, United States
  • University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
    Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27278, United States
  • Associated Urologists of North Carolina
    Raleigh, North Carolina 27612, United States
  • Dayton Physicians Network
    Centerville, Ohio 45459, United States
  • The Urology Group
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45212, United States
  • University of Cincinnati Cancer Center
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45267, United States
  • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Cleveland, Ohio 44195, United States
  • Central Ohio Urology Group
    Gahanna, Ohio 43230, United States
  • MidLantic Urology
    Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004, United States
  • Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, United States
  • Lowcountry Urology Clinics
    North Charleston, South Carolina 29406, United States
  • Erlanger Health
    Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403, United States
  • Urology Associates, PC
    Nashville, Tennessee 37209, United States
  • Urology Partners of North Texas
    Arlington, Texas 76017, United States
  • Texas Oncology
    Austin, Texas 78705, United States
  • Urology Austin, PLLC
    Austin, Texas 78745, United States
  • Houston Metro Urology
    Houston, Texas 77027, United States
  • Urology San Antonio
    San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
  • Potomac Urology
    Alexandria, Virginia 22311, United States
  • Virginia Urology
    Richmond, Virginia 23235, United States
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
    Richmond, Virginia 23298, United States
  • Urology of Virginia
    Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462, United States
  • University of Washington School of Medicine
    Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
  • Spokane Urology
    Spokane, Washington 99202, United States
  • HCG Cancer Centre
    Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh 530040, India
  • Adyar Cancer Institute
    Adyār, Chennai 600036, India
  • HCG Aastha Cancer Centre
    Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380060, India
  • Darakh Nursing Home and Kidney Stone Centre
    Aurangabad, Maharashtra 431001, India
  • Kidney Centre Jasleen Hospital
    Nagpur, Maharashtra 440012, India
  • Indriyani Hospital & Cancer Institute
    Pune, Maharashtra 412105, India
  • HCG Manavata Cancer Centre
    Mumbai, Nashik 422002, India
  • BLK-Max Super Specialty Hospital
    New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi 1100005, India
  • All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
    Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751019, India
  • Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
    Amritsar, Punjab 143501, India
  • Urocare Hospital
    Guntur, Rajkort 360002, India
  • Erode Cancer Centre
    Erode, Tamilnadu. India 638012, India
  • Pi Health Cancer Hospital
    Hyderabad, Telangana 500032, India
  • Max Super Specialty Hospital
    Ghaziabad, Uttar Pardesh 201012, India
  • Pushpanjali Hospital & Research Centre
    Agra, Uttar 282002, India
  • Swami Harshankaranand JI Hospital and Research Centre
    Sunderpur, Varanasi 221005, India
  • Govt. Medical College, Kolkata
    Kolkata, West Bengal 700073, India
  • B J Medical College & Civil Hospital, Asarwa, Ahmedaba
    Ahmedabad, India
  • Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute
    Banjara Hills, India
  • HCG Bangalore
    Bengaluru, 560027, India
  • SP Medical College and Hospital
    Bikaner, 334003, India
  • Guru Govnid Singh Medical College and Hospital
    Farīdkot, 151203, India
  • Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital
    Gujrāt, India
  • Binayak Multispecialty Hospital
    Kolkata, 700050, India
  • Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute
    Kolkata, India
  • KR Hospital
    Mysuru, 570001, India
  • KMC Manipal
    Nagar, 576104, India
  • Jasleen Hospital
    Nagpur, 440012, India

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References and documents

Publications

  • Chamie K, Chang SS, Rosser CJ, Kramolowski E, Gonzalgo ML, Sexton WJ, Spilman P, Sender L, Reddy S, Soon-Shiong P. N-803 Plus BCG Treatment for BCG-Naive or -Unresponsive Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Plain Language Review. Future Oncol. 2024;20(31):2307-2317. doi: 10.1080/14796694.2024.2363744. Epub 2024 Jul 2. PubMed 38953850 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 31, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02138734
Lead sponsor
ImmunityBio, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 15, 2014
Start date
Jul 21, 2014
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 4, 2039 (estimated)
Last update
Mar 31, 2026

Study contacts

Bobby Reddy, MD
study director · ImmunityBio, Inc.

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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