POUT
Disease site: Urological
Treatment Modality: Chemotherapy
Status: In set-up
POUT is a phase III trial investigating the optimum treatment strategy following nephro-ureterectomy for muscle invasive upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma.
Participants will be randomised between immediate platinum based combination chemotherapy and a surveillance strategy with treatment for further disease if it returns.
The primary objective is to to determine whether adjuvant combination chemotherapy improves disease-free survival for patients with resected histologically confirmed muscle invasive or node positive upper tract TCC.
The target number of participants is 345 over 5 years of recruitment.
Chief Investigator: | Dr Alison Birtle |
Sponsor: | The Institute of Cancer Research |
Source of funding: | Cancer Research UK |
ISRCTN: | tba |