Study of Tumour Focused Radiotherapy for Bladder Cancer

Bladder cancer is the seventh most common cancer in the UK, with 10,399 new cases diagnosed in 2011. In a quarter of these cases the cancer has infiltrated the muscular wall of the bladder (muscle invasive) and is life threatening. This type of bladder cancer is usually treated either with surgical removal of the bladder, or daily radiotherapy treatment (high strength xrays which kill cells), given every day for 4 or 7 weeks. RAIDER will investigate methods which have the potential to improve how well this radiotherapy works. RAIDER is based on a study of novel radiotherapy techniques which was conducted at a single UK NHS Trust. Bladder radiotherapy is normally delivered using a single plan throughout treatment and treats the whole bladder with the same radiotherapy dose. In adaptive radiotherapy the delivery plan is chosen from 3 possible plans. In cancer (tumour) focused radiotherapy, the highest dose of the radiotherapy is aimed at the tumour within the bladder. In RAIDER, at least 240 participants with muscle invasive bladder cancer will be in one of 3 treatment groups: 1. standard whole bladder radiotherapy 2. standard dose tumour focused adaptive radiotherapy 3. dose escalated tumour boost adaptive radiotherapy Participants will visit the hospital 4 weeks, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months after radiotherapy and annually thereafter to check whether the cancer has returned and to receive treatment for any symptoms they may be experiencing. RAIDER aims to confirm in a multicentre setting that novel techniques allow a higher radiotherapy dose than standard to be reliably targeted at the tumour within the bladder and to check that the long term side effects of the treatment are acceptable. If this is the case, results of RAIDER will be used to develop a study to establish whether dose escalated radiotherapy is better at treating bladder cancer than standard dose.

Sex

All

Minimum age

16 Years

Inclusion Criteria:

* Written informed consent
* Age ≥16 years
* Histologically or cytologically confirmed transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder
* Unifocal bladder TCC staged T2-T4a N0 M0\*
* Fit to receive a radical course of radiotherapy
* WHO performance status 0-2
* Willing and able to comply with study procedures and follow up schedule \*Tumour location must be clearly visible on imagine or recorded on a surgical bladder map

Exclusion Criteria:

* Nodal or metastatic disease
* Multifocal invasive disease
* Simultaneous TCC in upper tract or urethra
* Pregnancy
* Active malignancy within 2 years of randomisation (not including non melanomatous skin carcinoma, previous non muscle invasive bladder tumours, NCCN low risk prostate cancer (T1/T2a, Gleason 6 PSA \<10), in situ carcinoma of any site)
* Bilateral hip replacements
* Any other conditions that in the Principal Investigator's opinion would be a contra-indication to radiotherapy (e.g. previous pelvic radiotherapy / inflammatory bowel disease)

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