
"I am glad that taking part in a trial might help others on their own cancer journey.”
Please note - this trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available.
This study is looking at chemicals and proteins called biomarkers in the blood and urine of people with bladder cancer.
Biomarkers are substances that doctors can measure in the body to help them tell how a disease is developing or how a treatment is working. In this study doctors want to look at biomarkers in people who are having gemcitabine and radiotherapy to treat bladder cancer. They call this combination of treatments GemX.
The aims of this study are
You may be able to enter this study if you are under the care of the Christie Hospital, Manchester and
You cannot enter this study if you
This study will recruit 50 people.
Everyone taking part will give weekly blood and urine samples while they have GemX treatment.
The study team will ask you to fill out a questionnaire at each visit during your treatment, again at 6 weeks and then at each of your yearly follow up visits, for 3 years. The questionnaire will ask about side effects and how you have been feeling. This is called a quality of life study.
If you agree to take part in this study, the researchers will also ask for a sample of tissue taken when you had surgery to diagnose your cancer. If you don’t want to give tissue samples for this study, you don’t have to. You can still take part in the study.
There are no extra hospital visits if you take part in this study. The researchers will take the study samples when you come to the hospital to see the doctor.
The only side effect you may have is a small bruise when the blood sample is taken.
Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.
Dr Ananya Choudhury
Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)
NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
If you have questions about the trial please contact our cancer information nurses
Freephone 0808 800 4040
"I am glad that taking part in a trial might help others on their own cancer journey.”