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. 2019 Sep 3;9(9):e022268. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022268

Table 1.

Schedule of investigations/assessments in PHOTO trial

Visit/assessment Pre-randomisation screening Pretreatment TURBT Prior to discharge Surveillance At first disease recurrence
/progression
Second TURBT (as clinically indicated) 3 months post-treatment 6 months post-treatment 9 months post-treatment 12 months post-treatment 18 months post-treatment 24 months post-treatment 36 months post-treatment Annually thereafter
Visual diagnosis of IR/HR NMIBC X According to EAU guidelines Treatment according to local practice
Medical history X
HRQoL questionnaire* X X X X† X† X† X† X† X† X†
TURBT according to treatment allocation with post-treatment MMC instillation X
Second TURBT, if required, according to treatment allocation X
Assessment of adverse events (CTCAE and Clavien Dindo) X
Cystoscopy X X X X X X X
Histological confirmation of recurrence/progression X
Collection of FFPE tissue‡ X X
Urine sample collection‡ X X X X X X
Blood sample collection‡ X X X X X X

*European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Version 3.0 (EORTC QLQ-C30), European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire for Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (QLQ-NMIBC24) (NMIBC24) and EQ-5D-3L.

†Questionnaire sent by post directly to participant.

‡If patient consented to participation in PHOTO-T (as this is archived pathology the tissue may be requested at an interval from the diagnostic resection/recurrence).

CTCAE, Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events; FFPE, Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded; HR, High risk; HRQoL, health-related quality of life; IR, Intermediate risk; MMC, Mitomycin-C; NMIBC, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer; PHOTO-T, PHOTO Translational; TURBT, Transurethral resection of bladder tumor.