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HYbrid Knife in Bladder Cancer Resection Initially Detected by Hexvix based BLUe-Light Enhancement

Not Applicable
Conditions
C67
D09.0
Malignant neoplasm of bladder
Bladder
Registration Number
DRKS00004414
Lead Sponsor
niversitätsklinikum Tübingen Universitätsklinik für Urologie
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
115
Inclusion Criteria

Non muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Diagnosed by cystoscopy, imaging technique or cytology
min. 1 lesion > 0,5 cm

Exclusion Criteria

- Age under 18 years.
- Persons who are incapable of giving consent.
- Pregnancy.
- Muscle-invasive cancer.
- Multifocal cancer > 5 lesions exceeding 0,5 cm
- Tumours which could not be resected completely with both methods (due to technical problems).
- Tumours too big to be retrieved endoscopically in one piece.
- In case of spacious CIS: Tumours which cannot be completely removed endoscopically
- Recent (6-8 weeks) instillation therapy (chemotherapeutics, BCG)
- pronounced fibrosis of the bladder (contracted bladder)
- Patients who will be treated with early installation therapy

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Proportion of specimen which can be reliably evaluated pathologically concerning muscle-invasiveness. Data will be gathered on e-questionnaires
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Percentage of en-bloc resections<br>Number each group of proven R0-status<br>In case of Re-TURB: Percentage of tumour-free Re-TURB specimen<br>Percentage of specimen of T1-tumours for which an histological subclassification was possible<br>Determination of Hexvix® tissue penetration<br>Correlation of the spatial expansion of fluorescent marked tissue and tumour-specific histological findings in the cross-sections<br>Data collection: All resected specimen will be investigated by the study-pathologist, data will be gathered on e-questionnaires. <br><br>After 12 months a PDD-cystoscopy will be conducted, recurrence and progression rate will be documented on e-questionnaires.<br>
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