Trial of Nadofaragene Firadenovec vs. Observation in Participants With Intermediate Risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (ABLE-32)

May 20, 2026 updated by: Ferring Pharmaceuticals

A Phase 3b, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Nadofaragene Firadenovec vs. Observation in Participants With Intermediate Risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

A phase 3b, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Nadofaragene Firadenovec vs. Observation in Participants with Intermediate Risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (IR NMIBC)

Study Overview

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

454

Phase

  • Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

    • Alberta
      • Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2V1P9
        • Recruiting
        • Prostate Cancer Centre
    • Ontario
      • Burlington, Ontario, Canada, L7N 3V2
        • Recruiting
        • G kenneth Jansz Medicine Professional Corporation
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1Z5
        • Recruiting
        • University Health Network UHN - Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
      • Liberec, Czechia, 46300
        • Recruiting
        • Krajská nemocnice Liberec
      • Prague, Czechia, 140 59
        • Recruiting
        • Fakultni Thomayerova nemocnice
    • Prague
      • Prague, Prague, Czechia, 140 59
        • Recruiting
        • Fakultni Thomayerova nemocnice
      • Prague, Prague, Czechia, 160 00
        • Recruiting
        • Androgeos, spol. s r.o. Location
      • Paris, France, 75013
        • Recruiting
        • Hôpital La Pitié Salpêtrière
    • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
      • Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, 63000
        • Recruiting
        • CHU Clermont Ferrand - Hopital Gabriel Montpied
    • Haute-Garonne
      • Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France, 31059
        • Recruiting
        • CHU Toulouse - Hôpital Rangueil
    • Nantes
      • Nantes, Nantes, France, 44093
        • Recruiting
        • CHU NANTES - Hôtel Dieu
    • New Aquitaine
      • Bordeaux, New Aquitaine, France, 33076
        • Recruiting
        • CHU de Bordeaux - Hôpital Pellegrin
    • Normandy
      • Rouen, Normandy, France, 76031
        • Recruiting
        • CHU de Rouen - Hopital Charles-Nicolle
    • Occitanie
      • Nîmes, Occitanie, France, 30229
        • Recruiting
        • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Nimes (Nîmes)
    • Rhone-Alpe
      • Lyon, Rhone-Alpe, France, 69310
        • Recruiting
        • Centre Hospitaliser Universitaire de Lyon Sud
    • Rhône-Alps
      • Lyon, Rhône-Alps, France, 69003
        • Recruiting
        • Hospices Civils de Lyon - Edouard Herriot Hosp.
    • Île-de-France Region
      • Paris, Île-de-France Region, France, 75018
        • Recruiting
        • APHP - Hopital Bichat
    • Aichi-ken
      • Nagakute, Aichi-ken, Japan, 480-1195
        • Recruiting
        • Aichi Medical University Hospital
      • Nagoya, Aichi-ken, Japan, 466-8560
        • Recruiting
        • Nagoya University Hospital
    • Chiba
      • Narita, Chiba, Japan, 286-8523
        • Recruiting
        • Japanese Red Cross Narita Hospital
    • Ehime
      • Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan, 791-0280
        • Recruiting
        • National Hospital Organization Shikoku Cancer Center
    • Fukuoka
      • Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 812-8582
        • Recruiting
        • Kyushu University Hospital
    • Hiroshima
      • Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, 734-8551
        • Recruiting
        • Hiroshima University Hospital
    • Ibaraki
      • Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan, 317-0077
        • Recruiting
        • Hitachi General Hospital
      • Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, 305-8576
        • Recruiting
        • University of Tsukuba Hospital
    • Kanagawa
      • Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, 216-8511
        • Recruiting
        • St. Marianna University Hospital
      • Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 236-0004
        • Recruiting
        • Yokohama City University Hospital
    • Kochi
      • Nankoku, Kochi, Japan, 783-8505
        • Recruiting
        • Kochi Medical School Hospital
    • Mie-ken
      • Tsu, Mie-ken, Japan, 514-8507
        • Recruiting
        • Mie University Hospital
    • Nara
      • Kashihara, Nara, Japan, 634-8522
        • Recruiting
        • Nara Medical University Hospital
    • Tokyo
      • Bunkyō-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, 113-8519
        • Recruiting
        • Institute of Science Tokyo Hospital
    • Wakayama
      • Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan, 641-8510
        • Recruiting
        • Wakayama Medical University Hospital
    • Wielkopolska
      • Poznan, Wielkopolska, Poland, 61-731
        • Recruiting
        • Clinical Research Center Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością Medic-R Sp.k.
    • Woj. Mazowieckie
      • Warsaw, Woj. Mazowieckie, Poland, 02-798
        • Recruiting
        • Medical Concierge Centrum Medyczne
    • Gyeonggi-do
      • Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, 10408
        • Recruiting
        • National Cancer Center
    • Gyeongsangnam-do
      • Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, 50612
        • Recruiting
        • Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital
    • Seoul
      • Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, 02841
        • Recruiting
        • Korea University Anam Hospital
      • Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, 06351
        • Recruiting
        • Samsung Medical Center
    • Songpa-gu
      • Seoul, Songpa-gu, South Korea, 05505
        • Recruiting
        • Asan Medical Center
      • Seoul, Songpa-gu, South Korea, 03080
        • Recruiting
        • Seoul National University Hospital
      • Madrid, Spain, 28041
        • Recruiting
        • Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre (Madrid)
      • Málaga, Spain, 29010
        • Recruiting
        • Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS) - Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria (HUVV)
    • Cantabria
      • Santander, Cantabria, Spain, 39008
        • Recruiting
        • Instituto de Investigacion Valdecilla (IDIVAL) / Hospital universitario Marques de Valdecilla
    • Catalonia
      • Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 08003
        • Recruiting
        • Hospital del Mar
    • Córdoba
      • Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, 14004
        • Recruiting
        • Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia
    • Galicia
      • A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 15006
        • Recruiting
        • Hospital Universitario de A Coruña
    • Granada
      • Granada, Granada, Spain, 18014
        • Recruiting
        • Hospital Universitario Virgen de Las Nieves
    • Madrid
      • Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 28046
        • Recruiting
        • Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Hospital Universitario La Paz
    • Vizcaya
      • Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain, 48013
        • Recruiting
        • Hospital Universitario Basurto
    • Alabama
      • Mobile, Alabama, United States, 36606
        • Recruiting
        • University of South Alabama (USA) Health System - USACM
      • Mobile, Alabama, United States, 56608
        • Recruiting
        • Urology Associates of Mobile
    • Arizona
      • Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85054
        • Recruiting
        • Mayo Clinic Arizona
      • Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85718
        • Recruiting
        • Center for Neurosciences
    • Arkansas
      • Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72211
        • Recruiting
        • Arkansas Urology, North Little Rock
    • California
      • Bakersfield, California, United States, 93301
        • Recruiting
        • Michael G Oefelein, MD Clinical Trials
      • Fresno, California, United States, 93720
        • Recruiting
        • Urology Associates of Central California
      • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90017
        • Recruiting
        • American Institute of Research
      • Murrieta, California, United States, 92563
        • Recruiting
        • Urology Center of Southern California
      • Orange, California, United States, 92868
        • Recruiting
        • University of California, Irvine
      • Santa Monica, California, United States, 90404
        • Recruiting
        • Providence Saint John's Cancer Institute
    • Colorado
      • Denver, Colorado, United States, 80210
        • Recruiting
        • Advent Health
    • District of Columbia
      • Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States, 20007
        • Recruiting
        • MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
    • Florida
      • Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224
        • Recruiting
        • Mayo Clinic
      • Largo, Florida, United States, 33771
        • Recruiting
        • Advanced Urology institute - Pinellas
      • Sarasota, Florida, United States, 34239
        • Recruiting
        • Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System
    • Georgia
      • Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
        • Recruiting
        • Emory University
    • Illinois
      • Lisle, Illinois, United States, 60532
        • Recruiting
        • NextStage Clinical Research
      • Quincy, Illinois, United States, 62301
        • Recruiting
        • Blessing Health System
    • Indiana
      • Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States, 47130
        • Recruiting
        • First Urology Research (Jeffersonville)
    • Iowa
      • Clive, Iowa, United States, 50325
        • Recruiting
        • Urology Center of Iowa Research
    • Kansas
      • Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67226
        • Recruiting
        • Wichita Urology Group
    • Kentucky
      • Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536
        • Recruiting
        • University of Kentucky (UK) - Markey Cancer Center
    • Maryland
      • Annapolis, Maryland, United States, 21401
        • Recruiting
        • Anne Arundel Urology, PA
    • Minnesota
      • Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
        • Recruiting
        • Mayo Clinic - Rochester Minnesota
    • Missouri
      • Creve Coeur, Missouri, United States, 63141
        • Terminated
        • Mercy Clinic Oncology and Hematology - David C. Pratt Cancer Center
      • St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63141
        • Recruiting
        • Specialty Clinical Research of St. Louis
    • Nebraska
      • Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68114
        • Recruiting
        • Adult and Pediatric Urology P.C.
    • New Jersey
      • Morristown, New Jersey, United States, 07960
        • Recruiting
        • Atlantic Health
    • New York
      • Albany, New York, United States, 10461
        • Recruiting
        • Albany Medical College
      • Cheektowaga, New York, United States, 14225
        • Recruiting
        • Great Lakes Physician PC d/b/a Western New York Urology Associates
      • Garden City, New York, United States, 11530
        • Recruiting
        • AccuMed Research Associates
      • Lake Success, New York, United States, 11042
        • Recruiting
        • Northwell Health -The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology
      • New York, New York, United States, 10010
        • Recruiting
        • Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System - Manhattan VA Medical Center
      • New York, New York, United States, 10016
        • Recruiting
        • Integrated Medical Professionals, PLLC
      • Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, 12603
        • Terminated
        • Premier Medical Group of the Hudson Valley
      • The Bronx, New York, United States, 10468
        • Recruiting
        • James J. Peters VA Medical Center
    • Ohio
      • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45267
        • Recruiting
        • University of Cincinnati
    • Oregon
      • Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
        • Recruiting
        • Oregon Health and Science University (Portland)
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States, 19004
        • Recruiting
        • MidLantic Urology
      • Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, 17601
        • Recruiting
        • Keystone Urology Specialists
      • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
        • Recruiting
        • University of Pennsylvania - Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine - Penn Urology
      • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15232
        • Recruiting
        • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Shadyside Medical Building
    • South Carolina
      • Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States, 29572
        • Recruiting
        • Carolina Urologic Research Center
    • Texas
      • Austin, Texas, United States, 78759
        • Recruiting
        • Urology Austin
      • Dallas, Texas, United States, 75231
        • Recruiting
        • Urology Clinics of North Texas PLLC (Dallas)
      • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
        • Recruiting
        • Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston)
      • Houston, Texas, United States, 77027
        • Recruiting
        • Houston Metro Urology - Memorial City
    • Virginia
      • Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, 23462
        • Recruiting
        • Urology of Virginia

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Diagnosed with intermediate risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (IR NMIBC) as defined by American Urological Association (AUA)/Society of Urologic Oncology [SUO] Guideline (2020)
  • Has undergone adequate transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT; with or without peri-operative chemotherapy) within 60 days prior to randomization:

    • Recurrence within 1 year, low-grade Ta
    • Solitary low-grade Ta >3 cm
    • Low-grade Ta, multifocal
    • Solitary high-grade Ta, ≤3 cm
    • Low-grade T1

      • Patients with T1 disease should undergo resection at the base of the lesion and biopsies should contain muscle fibres.
      • Restage TURBT may be done at the discretion of the investigator

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Current or previous evidence of muscle invasive (muscularis propria) or metastatic disease presented at the screening visit

High risk NMIBC defined as:

  • High-grade T1
  • Any recurrent, high-grade Ta
  • High-grade Ta >3 cm (or multifocal)
  • Any carcinoma in situ (CIS)
  • Any Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) failure in high-grade subject
  • Any variant histology
  • Any prostatic urethral involvement

Low risk NMIBC defined as:

  • First occurrence of low-grade solitary Ta ≤3 cm
  • Recurrence of low-grade solitary Ta ≤3 cm >12 months from previous occurrence
  • Papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Arm 1 Nadofaragene Firadenovec
Participants in the nadofaragene firadenovec arm will receive quarterly instillations with nadofaragene firadenovec for 24 months. For these subjects, the disease evaluation visits will occur within 2 weeks prior to the investigation medicinal products instillation visits.
Vector-based gene therapy for NMIBC treatment to potentiate durable therapeutic responses by interferon (IFN) alfa-2b (IFN-α2b) amplification.
Other Names:
  • Adstiladrin
No Intervention: Arm 2 - Observation

Subjects will be followed based on the surveillance schedule of the AUA/SUO guideline (quarterly) over the 24 months treatment period.

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What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Recurrence Free survival
Time Frame: 24 months
Recurrence-free survival, defined as the time from the date of randomization to the date of first documented recurrence, progression or death (due to any cause), whichever occurs first during the treatment period.
24 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Adverse Events
Time Frame: up to 24 months
Frequency and intensity of adverse events will be recorded from the signed informed consent for participation in the trial up to month 24
up to 24 months
Recurrence Free Survival at 12 Months
Time Frame: 12 months
Recurrence free survival at 12 months defined as whether a subject is alive and is documented recurrence and progression-free for up to 12 months
12 months
Recurrence Free Survival at 24 Months
Time Frame: 24 Months
Recurrence free survival at 24 months defined as whether a subject is alive and is documented recurrence and progression-free for up to 24 months
24 Months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Investigators

  • Study Director: Global Clinical Compliance, Ferring Pharmaceutical

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

October 1, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

June 30, 2028

Study Completion (Estimated)

June 30, 2031

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 15, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 15, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

July 19, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 22, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 20, 2026

Last Verified

May 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

Yes

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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