NCT07222488RecruitingPhase 1/2
A Clinical Study of MK-3120 in People With Bladder Cancer (MK-3120-003)
Phase 1/2 Study of Intravesical MK-3120 in BCG-Naïve or BCG-Exposed High-Risk Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (HR NMIBC). NMIBC is cancer in the tissue that lines the inside of the bladder and has not spread to the bladder muscle or outside of the bladder. In standard treatment for HR NMIBC, doctors first remove the tumor with a procedure called transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT). Researchers want to learn if using MK-3120, the study medicine, can treat HR NMIBC after TURBT. The goal of this study is to learn about the safety of MK-3120 and if people tolerate it.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 1/2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 45 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 27 Oct 2025
- Start date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jul 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Bladder cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07222488
- EU CT number
- 2025-520467-40-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 1/2
- Planned participants: 45
- From 9 Dec 2025 to the primary completion date, 30 Jul 2027
- 17 sites in 12 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Has concurrent extravesical (ie, urethra, ureter, renal pelvis) non-muscle invasive UC or history of extravesical non-muscle invasive UC that recurred within the last 2 years.
- Has not adequately recovered from major surgery or has ongoing surgical complications.
Other illness
- Has history of or current locally advanced (ie, T2, T3, T4) or metastatic urothelial cancer (UC).
- Has active total bladder incontinence, active urinary tract infection, neurogenic bladder, or urethral stricture.
- Has a condition that would prohibit normal voiding (or holding bladder voiding for 1 to 2 hours).
- Has uncontrolled, significant cardiovascular disease or cerebrovascular disease, including New York Heart Association Class III or IV congestive heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, uncontrolled symptomatic arrhythmia, prolongation of QTcF interval to \>470 ms, and/or other serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases within the 6 months preceding study intervention.
- Has history of documented severe dry eye syndrome, severe Meibomian gland disease and/or blepharitis, or severe corneal disease that prevents/delays corneal healing.
- HIV-infected participants with a history of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or Multicentric Castleman's Disease.
- Has known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years.
- Has active infection requiring systemic therapy.
- Has a history of (noninfectious) pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease (ILD) that required steroids, or has current pneumonitis/ILD.
Other
- Has known active central nervous system metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis.
Who the study is looking for
- Has histologically confirmed carcinoma in situ (CIS) +/- papillary high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), confirmed locally.
- Is an individual whose most recent transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) was performed within 12 weeks before allocation and showed high-risk NMIBC histology. For individuals with papillary tumors (Ta and T1), a complete TURBT must have been performed, as characterized by attainment of a visually complete resection of all papillary tumors (Ta and T1).
- Is either: a) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-naïve, defined as either having never received BCG or having received BCG more than 2 years before CIS +/- papillary high-risk NMIBC recurrence. 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 OR; b) BCG-exposed and received adequate BCG therapy and had recurrence of CIS +/- papillary high-risk NMIBC \>12 months but ≤24 months after the last BCG dose.
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants must have well-controlled HIV on antiretroviral therapy.
- Participants who are hepatitis B surface antigen positive are eligible if they have received hepatitis B virus (HBV) antiviral therapy for at least 4 weeks, and have undetectable HBV viral load prior to allocation.
- Participants with history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are eligible if HCV viral load is undetectable at screening.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (17)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical University of Vienna Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Vienna | Austria | Completed |
| Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gent | Belgium | Completed |
| CHU de Quebec - Hopital de l'Enfant-Jesus ( Site 0011) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Québec | Canada | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Completed |
| Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Málaga | Spain | Completed |
| Institut Gustave Roussy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Villejuif | France | Completed |
| Athens Medical Center S.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Thessaloniki | Greece | Active, not recruiting |
| Rabin Medical Center ( Site 0062) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Petah Tikva | Israel | Recruiting |
| Centro Ricerche Cliniche di Verona s.r.l. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Verona | Italy | Completed |
| Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Active, not recruiting |
| Akershus University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Loerenskog | Norway | Completed |
| Urology Austin, PLLC ( Site 0008) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Austin | United States | Completed |
| Michael G Oefelein Clinical Trials ( Site 0005) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bakersfield | United States | Recruiting |
| Carolina Urologic Research Center ( Site 0006) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Myrtle Beach | United States | Recruiting |
| Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey ( Site 0007) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Brunswick | United States | Recruiting |
| Ankara University Health Practice and Research Hospitals ( Site 0132) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
| Koc Universitesi Hastanesi ( Site 0133) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Istanbul | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
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