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Brief Title: Oral Lenalidomide and Intravesical BCG for Therapy of Bladder Cancer
Official Title: Immune Modulation by Addition of Oral Lenalidomide to Intravesical BCG (Bacille Calmette-Guerrin) for Therapy of Non-muscle-invasive Transitional Cell Bladder Cancer
Study ID: NCT01373294
Brief Summary: The purposes of this study are to: * find out whether participants' cancer returns or gets worse while they are taking lenalidomide and Bacille Calmette-Guerrin (BCG); * evaluate the safety and tolerability of the combination of lenalidomide and BCG; * compare the cancer progression of participants taking lenalidomide and BCG versus participants taking only BCG
Detailed Description: Investigators planned to screen approximately 100 people with bladder cancer who are 18 years of age or older throughout the United States for this study. This is a multi-center study combining two marketed drugs, one of which has not been used previously in people with transitional cell cancer. Lenalidomide (Revlimid®) is a drug that alters the immune system and it may also interfere with the development of tiny blood vessels that help support tumor growth. Therefore, in theory, it may reduce or prevent the growth of cancer cells. Lenalidomide is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of specific types of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and in combination with dexamethasone for patients with multiple myeloma (MM) who have received at least 1 prior therapy. MDS and MM are cancers of the blood. Lenalidomide is currently being tested in a variety of cancer conditions. It is not approved by the FDA for use in people with bladder cancer, so in this case it is considered experimental. The other drug used in this study is Bacille Calmette-Guerrin (BCG). BCG is approved by the FDA for use in people with bladder cancer.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States
Name: Mayer Fishman, M.D., Ph.D.
Affiliation: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR