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RecruitingNCT06388720IMGeSUpdated May 29, 2026

The Clinical Effectiveness and Safety of Intravesical Mitomycin-C and Gemcitabine Sequential Therapy

A Phase 2 interventional study of Mitomycin-C and gemcitabine in Bladder Cancer, sponsored by National Cancer Center, Korea. Recruiting at 1 site in South Korea. Open to participants aged 20 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-29.

Sponsored by National Cancer Center, Korea · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Nov 2024; still recruiting 1 year 11 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
82
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
20 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of mitomycin-c and gemcitabine sequential instillation in BCG unresponsive high risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients.

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Phase 2 clinical, multi-institutional, open assignment prospective study

Primary Outcome Measures:

1-year recurrence-free survival period in high-risk groups after sequential injection of Mitomycin-c 40 mg/20 ml and Gemcitabine 2000 mg/50 ml in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients in BCG-free high-risk groups.

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Progression Free Survival (PFS), Cystectomy free survival (CFS), Cancer specific survival (CSS), Overall survival (OS) and safety after Mitomycin-c 40mg/20ml and Gemcitabine 2000mg/50ml treatment in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients in BCG-free high-risk groups.

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Conditions studied

  • Bladder Cancer

Keywords

  • high risks non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
  • Sequential treatment
  • Intravesical treatment
  • Mitomycin-c
  • Gemcitanine
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In context

Urinary Bladder Neoplasms

1,798 studies on the registry are indexed under Urinary Bladder Neoplasms; 445 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 82 is above the median of 60 across 1,296 interventional studies indexed under Urinary Bladder Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

National Cancer Center, Korea is the lead sponsor of 204 studies on the registry; 36 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. a patient over the age of 20
  2. Patients who are willing and able to complete a written test subject consent/approval for this examination.
  3. confirmed high-risk NMIBC (according to AUA guidelines; High-grade T1 disease, any recurrent high-grade Ta, high-grade Ta >3 cm, high-grade Ta that is multifocal, any carcinoma in situ, any BCG failure in high-grade patients, any variant histology, any lymphovascular invasion, and any high-grade prostatic urethral involvement) with prior BCG therapy.
  4. The most recent bladder examination/TURBT must be performed within 8 weeks before the initial administration of the trial treatment. Patients with high risk NMIBC who received proper BCG treatment but did not respond to BCG
  5. Patients who are not eligible for a radical bladder resection or who have refused surgery.
  6. Patient who are not being pregnant or breast feeding until the study period.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patient diagnosed with muscle-invasive bladder cancer at TURBT
  2. If upper urinary tract urothelial cancer is accompanied by imaging
  3. If the imaging indicates extravesical involvement (cT3)
  4. Imaging shows lymph node (short-axis 15mm or more) or distant metastasis
  5. In a , non-transitional cell histology is dominant, or only non-transitional cell tissue is present (primary squamous cell carcinoma, primary adenocarcinoma, small cell carcinoma, sarcoma, carcinosarcoma, paraganglioma, melanoma, lymphoma)
  6. In the case of receiving systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy for other cancers within 3 years
  7. If patient have a history of pelvic radiation therapy for other cancers within 3 years
  8. If patient have a history of receiving Mitomycin-c or gemcitabine in the bladder within 3 years. The exception is cases used for the purpose of injection therapy of anticancer drugs in the early bladder cancer
  9. If patient has a history of allergy to mitomycin-c or gemcitabine
  10. Cystoscopy shows a tumor in the prostate urethra
  11. Patients who have participated in studies using clinical trial drugs and are currently receiving clinical trial drugs or who have used clinical trial drugs or clinical trial medical devices within 4 weeks prior to the date of initial treatment
  12. After post-cystoscopy/TURBT, the patient received intravesical chemotherapy prior to the start of trial treatment
  13. Thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy or bleeding tendency patient.
  14. Pregnant or breast-feeding women
  15. If patient treated yellow fever vaccine or phenytoin
  16. Dysfunction of liver or kidney (GFP≤30)
  17. If patient undergo severe myelosuppression
  18. If patient complicated severe infection
  19. If patient definitely diagnosed interstitial lung disease or lung fibrosis by chest X-ray.
  20. If patient conduct chest radiotherapy.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

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Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Biopsy and archival tissue

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intervention group

    Intravesical sequential treatment of Mitomycin-c 40mg/20ml and Gemcitabine 2000mg/50ml

    Drug: Mitomycin-C · Drug: gemcitabine

Interventions

  • Intravesical instillation of Mitomycin-c 40 mg in 20 ml as the first agent in sequential treatment.

    Also known as: Sequential treatment group

  • Intravesical instillation of Gemcitabine 2000 mg in 50 ml following Mitomycin-c administration.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. High risk Recurrent free survival in sequential treatment group.

    Time from initial TURBT\* to first histologically confirmed recurrence of high-risk NMIBC or disease progression (per PFS definition), whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: 1year

Secondary outcomes

  1. Progression free survival in sequential treatment group.

    defined as the period from the initial TURBT date\* to the time when T stage progresses (e.g., Ta\>T1, CIS\>T1) (PFS1) or muscle invasive bladder cancer (T2 or higher) was first biopsy confirmed (PFS2) or imagingally diagnosed with metastasis to bladder cancer.

    Time frame: 1year

  2. Cystectomy free survival in sequential treatment group.

    Defined as the period from the initial TURBT date\* to the time when radical cystomy was performed.

    Time frame: 1year

  3. cancer specific survival in sequential treatment group.

    Duration from initial TURBT date\* to the time of death from bladder cancer

    Time frame: 1year

  4. Overall survival in sequential treatment group.

    The period from the initial TURBT date\* to the point of death (regardless of cause)

    Time frame: 1year

  5. Safety of sequential treatment.

    The first safety analysis is conducted on test subjects who have developed toxicity in accordance with CTCAE standards. In particular, urinary disorders such as urinary tract infections and acute urination that occurred after injection of drugs into the bladder are evaluated.

    Time frame: 2year

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Nov 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2027, 37 months after the start.

Of 155 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Urinary Bladder Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 58 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 39 and three quarters within 103. This study's planned 37 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 194 studies reached it within 52 months; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 91.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Apr 24, 2024
First posted
Apr 29, 2024
StartActual
Nov 19, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Dec 31, 2027
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2028
Last update
May 29, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 29, 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
NCT06388720
Collaborators
Korea University Anam Hospital, Pusan National University Hospital, Samsung Medical Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Chonnam National University Hospital
Responsible party
Ho Kyung Seo (Primary Investigator, National Cancer Center, Korea) — Principal investigator
First posted
Apr 29, 2024
Start date
Nov 19, 2024
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2028 (estimated)
Last update
May 29, 2026

Study contacts

Ho Kyung Seo, MD
Contact
seohk@ncc.re.kr
82-31-920-1678
Eui Hyun Jung, Ph.D
Contact
jeh0315@ncc.re.kr
82-31-920-2451
Ho Kyung Seo, MD
principal investigator · National Cancer Center, Korea

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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