Brief Summary
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat people with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladdera hollow, muscular sac in the pelvis that stores urine cancera disease where abnormal cells split without control and spread to other nearby body tissue and/or organs (HR NMIBC). NMIBC is cancer in the tissuea group of cells that work together to perform a function that lines the inside of the bladder but has not spread to the bladder muscle or outside of the bladder. High-risk means NMIBC may have a high chance of getting worse or coming back after treatment. HR NMIBC can also include carcinoma in situpre-cancerous condition where abnormal cells haven't spread beyond the place they developed (CIS). CIS is bladder cancer that appears flat and is only in the inner layer (surface) of the bladder. CIS is not raised and is not growing toward the center of the bladder.
The standard treatment for HR NMIBC is a procedure to remove the tumor called transurethral resectionsurgical removal of tissue or part/all of an organ of the bladder tumor (TURBT) followed by Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). Standard treatment is something that is considered the first line of treatment for a condition. BCG is an immunotherapya treatment that uses a person's immune system to fight cancer, which is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. However, BCG may not work to treat HR NMIBC in some people. Researchers want to learn if adding V940, the study treatment, to standard treatment can help treat HR NMIBC. V940 is designed to help a person’s immune system attack their specific cancer.
The goals of this study are to learn:
- If people who receive V940 with BCG live longer without the cancer growing, spreading, or coming back, or dying from any cause, compared to people who receive BCG alone
- If more people who receive V940 with BCG have their cancer go away (complete response), compared to people who receive BCG alone
- How many people who receive V940 without BCG have their cancer go away
Intervention / Treatment
- Biological: V940
- Biological: BCG
Inclusion Criteria:
The main inclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
- Is an individual whose most recent TURBT was performed within 12 weeks before randomization/allocation and showed BICR-confirmed high-risk NMIBC histology
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals must have well controlled HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART)
BCG Arms:
- Has high-risk non-muscle invasive (HG Ta, T1, and/or CIS) UC of the bladder
- Is BCG-naïve defined as either having never received BCG or having received BCG more than 2 years before high-risk NMIBC recurrenceto occur or happen again. Recurrence must be at least 24 months from the last exposure to BCG with evidence of complete response during the 2-year period post BCG
V940 Monotherapy Arm:
- Has CIS +/-papillary non-muscle invasive UC of the bladder
- Is ineligible for, or refusing, any IVESIC therapy
- Is either BCG-naïve (as defined above) or BCG-exposed but did not receive protocol-specified minimum dosing of BCG and experienced recurrence of high-risk NMIBC within 2 years of the last dosethe amount of medication taken of BCG