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A trial looking at chemotherapy and surgery for early bladder cancer (CALIBER)

Overview

Cancer types:

Bladder cancer

Status:

Results

Phase:

Phase 2

Details

This trial looked at different ways of treating early stage bladder cancer that had come back after initial treatment. It looked at surgery and a type of chemotherapy called mitomycin C.

It was for people with the most common type of bladder cancer called transitional cell cancer.

This trial was open for people to join between 2015 and 2017. These results were published in 2020.

Recruitment start: 28 January 2015

Recruitment end: 4 September 2017

How to join

Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Mr Hugh Mostafid

Supported by

Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)

The Institute of Cancer Research

NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer

NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme

Last reviewed: 05 Oct 2017

CRUK internal database number: 12770

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