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Bladder Cancer clinical trials in Iowa

15 actively recruiting bladder cancer trials at 16 sites across Iowa.

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Phase 2, Phase 3 Recruiting NIH

Testing the Role of DNA Released From Tumor Cells Into the Blood in Guiding the Use of Immunotherapy After Surgical Removal of the Bladder, Kidney, Ureter, and Urethra for Urothelial Cancer Treatment, MODERN Study

This phase II/III trial examines whether patients who have undergone surgical removal of bladder, kidney, ureter or urethra, but require an additional treatment called immunotherapy to help prevent their urinary tract (urothelial) cancer f…

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCT ID: NCT05987241
Sites in Iowa:
  • Mary Greeley Medical Center — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Ames — Ames, Iowa
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - Ankeny Clinic — Ankeny, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Boone — Boone, Iowa
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - West Des Moines Clinic — Clive, Iowa
Phase 3 Recruiting Academic/Other

Testing Shorter Duration Radiation Therapy Versus the Usual Radiation Therapy in Patients Receiving the Usual Chemotherapy Treatment for Bladder Cancer, ARCHER Study

This phase III trial compares the effect of decreased number of radiation (ultra-hypofractionated) treatments to the usual radiation number of treatments (hypofractionation) with standard of care chemotherapy, with cisplatin, gemcitabine o…

Sponsor: NRG Oncology
NCT ID: NCT07097142
Sites in Iowa:
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - Ankeny Clinic — Ankeny, Iowa
  • Mercy Cancer Center-West Lakes — Clive, Iowa
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - West Des Moines Clinic — Clive, Iowa
  • Greater Regional Medical Center — Creston, Iowa
  • Iowa Methodist Medical Center — Des Moines, Iowa
Phase 2 Recruiting NIH

Testing the Effectiveness of Two Immunotherapy Drugs (Nivolumab and Ipilimumab) With One Anti-cancer Targeted Drug (Cabozantinib) for Rare Genitourinary Tumors

This phase II trial studies how well cabozantinib works in combination with nivolumab and ipilimumab in treating patients with rare genitourinary (GU) tumors that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the…

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCT ID: NCT03866382
Sites in Iowa:
  • Mary Greeley Medical Center — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Ames — Ames, Iowa
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - Ankeny Clinic — Ankeny, Iowa
  • University of Iowa Healthcare Cancer Services Quad Cities — Bettendorf, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Boone — Boone, Iowa
Phase 2 Recruiting NIH

Combining Immunotherapy and Radiation Therapy to Help Patients Avoid Bladder Removal After Treatment Shrinks Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, BRIGHT Trial

This phase II trial tests the effect of giving pembrolizumab in combination with radiation therapy after chemotherapy in preventing surgery to remove the bladder in patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer. Standard of care therapy inc…

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCT ID: NCT07061964
Sites in Iowa:
  • Mary Greeley Medical Center — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Ames — Ames, Iowa
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - Ankeny Clinic — Ankeny, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Boone — Boone, Iowa
  • Mercy Cancer Center-West Lakes — Clive, Iowa
Phase 2 Recruiting NIH

Testing the Addition of the Immunotherapy Drug, Pembrolizumab, to Radiation Therapy Compared to the Usual Chemotherapy Treatment During Radiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer, PARRC Trial

This phase II trial compares the use of pembrolizumab and radiation therapy to chemotherapy with cisplatin, gemcitabine, 5-fluorouracil or mitomycin-C and radiation therapy for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Immunothe…

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCT ID: NCT06770582
Sites in Iowa:
  • Mary Greeley Medical Center — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Ames — Ames, Iowa
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - Ankeny Clinic — Ankeny, Iowa
  • Mercy Cancer Center-West Lakes — Clive, Iowa
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - West Des Moines Clinic — Clive, Iowa
Phase 1, Phase 2 Recruiting Academic/Other

Modern Immunotherapy in BCG-Unresponsive, BCG-Relapsing and High Risk BCG-Naive Non-Muscle Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder

Upon successful screening and registration, enrollment to durvalumab monotherapy (cohort 1) will begin. If DLT criteria outlined in the protocol are exceeded with durvalumab monotherapy (cohort 1), the study will close. Provided the safety…

Sponsor: Noah Hahn, M.D.
NCT ID: NCT03317158
Sites in Iowa:
  • University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 2 Recruiting Academic/Other

Intravenous Ascorbate Plus Gemcitabine/Carboplatin: A Novel and Cost-Effective Alternative With Evident Efficacy in Patients With Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

This is a phase II, single arm, Simon two-stage design, trial, enrolling patients with cisplatin ineligible MIBC and/or those patients who decline cisplatin based NAC. Assess rates of pathologic downstaging and quality of life in MIBC cisp…

Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center
NCT ID: NCT06493370
Sites in Iowa:
  • Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center - The University of Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 2 Recruiting Academic/Other

Intravesical GEM/DOCE for HR BCG-Unresponsive NMIBC

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether a combination of two chemotherapy drugs, Gemcitabine and Docetaxel, can treat high-grade non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (HG-NMIBC) in adults whose cancer failed conventional BCG thera…

Sponsor: Michael A. O'Donnell
NCT ID: NCT07322263
Sites in Iowa:
  • University of Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 1 Recruiting Industry

A Study of [225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189 in Patients With Solid Tumors

This is a first-in-human Phase 1b, 2-part, multicenter open-label clinical study to evaluate safety and efficacy of a Nectin-4 radiopharmaceutical (\[225Ac\]Ac-AKY-1189) in patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors and to e…

Sponsor: Aktis Oncology, Inc.
NCT ID: NCT07020117
Sites in Iowa:
  • University of Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa
Recruiting Academic/Other

Collecting Blood Samples From Patients With and Without Cancer to Evaluate Tests for Early Cancer Detection

This study collects blood and tissue samples from patients with cancer and without cancer to evaluate tests for early cancer detection. Collecting and storing samples of blood and tissue from patients with and without cancer to study in th…

Sponsor: Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
NCT ID: NCT05334069
Sites in Iowa:
  • Mary Greeley Medical Center — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Ames — Ames, Iowa
  • UI Health Care Mission Cancer and Blood - Ankeny Clinic — Ankeny, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Boone — Boone, Iowa
  • Mercy Hospital — Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Recruiting Industry

SYNERGY-AI: Artificial Intelligence Based Precision Oncology Clinical Trial Matching and Registry

International registry for cancer patients evaluating the feasibility and clinical utility of an Artificial Intelligence-based precision oncology clinical trial matching tool, powered by a virtual tumor boards (VTB) program, and its clinic…

Sponsor: Massive Bio, Inc.
NCT ID: NCT03452774
Sites in Iowa:
  • Massive Bio SYNERGY-AI site — Iowa City, Iowa
Recruiting Academic/Other

Integrated Cancer Repository for Cancer Research

The iCaRe2 is a multi-institutional resource created and maintained by the Fred \& Pamela Buffett Cancer Center to collect and manage standardized, multi-dimensional, longitudinal data and biospecimens on consented adult cancer patients, h…

Sponsor: University of Nebraska
NCT ID: NCT02012699
Sites in Iowa:
  • Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital — Council Bluffs, Iowa
  • Covenant Medical Center, Inc — Waterloo, Iowa

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 · Last checked: 2026-04-20