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CompletedNCT02365818BOND2Updated Apr 14, 2021

Safety and Efficacy of CG0070 Oncolytic Virus Regimen for High Grade NMIBC After BCG Failure

A Phase 2 interventional study of CG0070 in Bladder Cancer, sponsored by CG Oncology, Inc.. Completed at 17 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-04-14.

Sponsored by CG Oncology, Inc. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Aug 2018, 8 years 2 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
66
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

To study the safety and efficacy of CG0070, an oncolytic virus expression GM-CSF in high grade non muscle invasive bladder cancer patients who failed BCG therapy and refused cystectomy.

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The plan is to study the safety and efficacy of CG0070 in high-grade NMIBC (Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer) patients who failed BCG therapy. Most patients with NMIBCis (Cis, Cis with Ta and/or T1, high grade Ta or T1 with frequent or uncontrolled recurrences) who have failed BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) intravesical therapy (standard of care) usually have no other choice but to proceed to cystectomy. Cystectomy is a surgery associated with major morbidity, mortality and quality of life issues. Morbidity and long term tedious medical care will be for the rest of the patient's life span. Most patients at this stage do not show signs of disease progression into the muscle layer or of metastasis, making surgery a very difficult decision. CG0070, if successful in this trial, will serve to provide a therapeutic alternative for this patient population in need.

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Conditions studied

  • Bladder Cancer

Keywords

  • Bladder Cancer
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In context

Urinary Bladder Neoplasms

1,616 studies on the registry are indexed under Urinary Bladder Neoplasms; 421 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 66 is close to the median of 60 across 1,163 interventional studies indexed under Urinary Bladder Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

CG Oncology, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 8 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients must have pathologically confirmed non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) high grade disease (HG), as defined by the 2004 WHO classification system
  2. Patients must have no evidence of muscle invasive disease
  3. Patients must be able to provide a sufficient biopsy sample to the central pathologist for histopathologically confirmed, transitional cell (urothelial) carcinoma. Urothelial tumors with mixed histology (but with \<50% variant) are eligible.
  4. Patients must have received at least two or more prior courses of intravesical therapy per recommended schedules. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) must have been one of the prior therapies administered.
  5. Patients can have either failed BCG induction therapy within a six-month period or have been successfully treated with BCG, but subsequently found to have recurrence. The first standard course of intravesical BCG therapy must include at least six weekly treatments (allowable range of instillations per course is 4-9). The second course of BCG therapy must include at least two weekly treatments.
  6. Patients have either Cis or Cis with Ta and/or T1 disease at enrollment or in the past. For those patients with only Ta or T1 disease at enrollment AND with no history of Cis, they must have

    • disease recurrence either must occur within 12 months of the most recent intravesical therapy of any kind, OR
    • disease recurrence within 18 months of BCG maintenance OR
    • disease recurrence within 24 months of BCG induction
    • T1 patients need to have evidence of muscle included in their latest biopsy; and if not a re-TURBT has to be done prior to enrollment
  7. 18 years of age or older
  8. Radical cystectomy has been declined by the patient in a signed special section of the informed consent, whereby there is a clear explanation by the investigator to the subject that a delay of cystectomy may increase his/her chance of disease progression, the results of which may lead to serious and life threatening consequences.
  9. Patients must be able to enter into the study within ten weeks of their most recent diagnostic procedure, which is usually a diagnostic biopsy, a transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) procedure or positive urine cytology.
  10. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status \<2.
  11. Not pregnant or lactating
  12. Patients with child bearing potential must agree to use adequate contraception
  13. Agree to study specific informed consent and HIPAA authorization for release of personal health information
  14. Adequate baseline CBC, renal and hepatic function. Parameters described as WBC>3000 cells/mm\^3, ANC>1,000 cells/mm\^3, hemoglobin>9.5g/dL, and platelet count >100,000 cells/mm\^3

    • Adequate renal function: serum creatinine \<2.5mg/dL
    • Bilirubin, AST and ALT not more than 2 x Upper Limits of Normal
    • PT/INR, PTT, and fibrinogen within institutional acceptable limits
    • Absolute lymphocyte count ≥ 800/μL before the first dose of CG0070

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Previous systemic chemotherapy or radiation for bladder cancer. Note: Prior immunotherapy or intravesical (administered within the bladder) chemotherapy for superficial disease is acceptable
  2. History of anaphylactic reaction following exposure to humanized or human therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, hypersensitivity to GM-CSF or yeast derived products, clinically meaningful allergic reactions or any known hypersensitivity or prior reaction to any of the formulation excipients in the study drugs.
  3. Known infection with HIV, HBV or HCV.
  4. Anticipated use of chemotherapy or radiotherapy not specified in the study protocol while on study
  5. Any underlying medical condition that, in the Investigator's opinion, will make the administration of study vector hazardous to the patient, would obscure the interpretation of adverse events, or not permit adequate surgical resection.
  6. Systemic treatment on any investigational clinical trial within 28 days prior to registration.
  7. Concurrent treatment with immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory agents, including any systemic steroid (exception: inhaled or topically applied steroids, and acute and chronic standard dose NSAIDs, are permitted). Use of a short course (i.e., ≤ 1 day) of a glucocorticoid is acceptable to prevent a reaction to the IV contrast used for CT scans.
  8. Immunosuppressive therapy, including: cyclosporine, antithymocyte globulin, or tacrolimus within 3 months of study entry.
  9. History of prior experimental cancer vaccine treatment (e.g., dendritic cell therapy, heat shock vaccine) within the last year
  10. History of stage III or greater cancer, excluding urothelial cancer. Basal or squamous cell skin cancers must have been adequately treated and the subject must be disease-free at the time of registration. Subjects with a history of stage I or II cancer, must have been adequately treated and have been disease-free for ≥ 2 years at the time of registration.
  11. Progressive or persistent viral or bacterial infection

    • All infections must be resolved and the patient must remain afebrile for seven days without antibiotics prior to being placed on study
    • Urinary tract infection, including particularly bladder infection, must be resolved prior to being placed on study
  12. Unwilling or unable to comply with the protocol or cooperate fully with the investigator and site personnel
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
66 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    CG0070

    Single arm intervention with CG0070 to be given at a dose of 1e12 vp weekly for six weeks. Patients who achieve a partial response or a complete response at 6 months post first intravesical intervention will be maintained with the same induction cycle of weekly times six. Patients will be followed every 3 months through Month 24.

    Biological: CG0070

Interventions

  • BiologicalCG0070

    Also known as: oncolytic adenovirus with a E2F promotor and expresses GMCSF

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Durable Complete Response Proportion (DCR)

    Defined as the proportion of patients who experience a durable complete response lasting 12 months or longer from the initial confirmed complete response date (first CR assessment to be at least 6 months after the first intravesical intervention) and at least 18 months from the date of the first intravesical intervention

    Time frame: 18 months time point from the date of the first intravesical intervention

Secondary outcomes

  1. Cystectomy Free Survival

    Not available, not collected on study or not currently available

    Time frame: 18 months after the first intravesical treatment

  2. Complete Response Survival

    Not available, not collected on study or not currently available

    Time frame: 18 months after the first intravesical treatment

  3. Progression Free Survival

    Not available, not collected on study or not currently available

    Time frame: 18 months after the first intravesical treatment

  4. Time to Progression to Muscle Invasive Disease

    Not available, not collected on study or not currently available

    Time frame: 18 months after the first intravesical treatment

  5. Overall Survival

    Not available, not collected on study or not currently available

    Time frame: 18 months and 24 months after first intravesical treatment

  6. PD-L1 Status Changes

    PD-L1 status of cancer cells and immune cells at tumor site by IHC

    Time frame: changes between pre-intervention and post intervention at either cystectomy or at biopsy up to 24 months

  7. Organ Confined Disease Proportions

    Patient proportions with no cancer cells in regional lymph nodes at cystectomy

    Time frame: at cystectomy

  8. Complete Response Proportions

    Proportions of patients with a complete response of at least 12 months' duration

    Time frame: 24 months after the first intravesical treatment

  9. PD-1 Status Changes

    PD-1 status of immune cells at tumor site by IHC

    Time frame: changes between pre-intervention and post intervention at either cystectomy or at biopsy up to 24 months

  10. Disease Regression Proportions

    Proportions of patients with a partial response and/or a complete response of less than 12 months' duration

    Time frame: 24 months after the first intravesical treatment

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Study locations

17 sites
  • Alaska Clinical Research Center
    Anchorage, Alaska 99503, United States
  • BCG Oncology
    Phoenix, Arizona 85032, United States
  • Arizona Institute of Urology
    Tucson, Arizona 85704, United States
  • Institute of Urologic Oncology at UCLA
    Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
  • UC Irvine Medical Center
    Orange, California 92868, United States
  • University of California, San Diego
    San Diego, California 92093, United States
  • UF Health Cancer Center
    Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
  • University of Chicago
    Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
  • Michigan Institute of Urology, P.C.
    Troy, Michigan 48084, United States
  • Adult Pediatric Urology and Urogynecology, PC
    Omaha, Nebraska 68114, United States
  • GU Research Network/ The Urology Center
    Omaha, Nebraska 68130, United States
  • Premier Urology Group, LLC.
    Edison, New Jersey 08837, United States
  • Premier Medical Group of the Hudson Valley
    Poughkeepsie, New York 12061, United States
  • Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, United States
  • The Urology Group
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45212, United States
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dept. of Urologic Surgery
    Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States
  • Medical College of Wisconsin
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 14, 2021, 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
NCT02365818
Lead sponsor
CG Oncology, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 19, 2015
Start date
Jun 2, 2015
Primary completion
Aug 2018
Completion
Feb 2019
Last update
Apr 14, 2021

Study contacts

Gary Steinberg, MD
principal investigator · University of Chicago

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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