Stambakio, Hanna

e13615 Background: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) remains the standard intravesical therapy for high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), but weekly clinic-based instillations create substantial travel, time, and indirect costs that may threaten adherence. Therefore, we proposed a pilot trial of delivering BCG at Home as a prospective, single-center pilot testing a pharmacy-to-home pathway with digital patient-reported outcome (PRO) monitoring. Methods: BCG at Home is a prospective, single-center pilot evaluating feasibility and safety of home delivery of induction BCG for treatment-naïve, high-grade T1 and/or carcinoma in situ NMIBC. Dose 1 is administered in clinic to confirm tolerability and catheterization feasibility; doses 2-6 are administered at home by Penn Medicine at Home nurses after a 3 month training and proctorship program in intravesical therapy and exposure precautions. To enable transport beyond conventional short post-preparation windows, the pharmacy prepares BCG using a closed system transfer device (CSTD); bench testing demonstrated stability and sterility for 24 hours after connection. A medical courier delivers the prepared medication to the patient’s home, where the nurse receives the delivery and performs the instillation. The primary endpoint is induction adherence (completion of all recommended doses). Secondary endpoints include PROs (EORTC QLQ-C30/QLQ-NMIBC24), satisfaction, and acute care utilization. PROs are captured before and after treatment using a conversational chatbot; domain summaries are assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, and 12 weeks. Results: The pilot began enrollment in June 2025 (planned sample size: 20). To date, eight participants have enrolled and completed induction. Median age was 76 years (range 41-88); 50% were female and 25% were Black/African American. Participants lived a mean of 30 miles from the treating facility. Forty home instillations were delivered, and all participants completed all recommended induction doses (100% adherence). Median nurse time in the home was 40 minutes. Five episodes of hematuria were self-limited; one urinary tract infection resolved with antibiotics. Self-efficacy improved from a median of 3 pre-treatment to 7 post-treatment. The median COST-FACIT score was 30 (scale 1-44). Mean EORTC QLQ-C30 global health status was 71 (0-100). EORTC QLQ-NMIBC24 averages showed urinary symptoms rising during induction (23 at baseline to 30 at 6 weeks) with improvement by 12 weeks (18) and future worries decreasing (33 to 25); intravesical treatment issues remained low (5 to 2). Conclusions: BCG at Home is, to our knowledge, the first prospective trial to administer intravesical BCG in the home setting using a standardized pharmacy-to-home pathway. Early results support feasibility, complete adherence, and an acceptable short-term safety profile. Clinical trial information: 07048496 .

Abstract Aim Female urethral stricture disease is rare and has several surgical approaches including endoscopic dilations (ENDO), urethroplasty with local vaginal tissue flap (ULT) or urethroplasty with free graft (UFG). This study aims to describe the contemporary management of female urethral stricture disease and to evaluate the outcomes of these three surgical approaches. Methods This is a multi‐institutional, retrospective cohort study evaluating operative treatment for female urethral stricture. Surgeries were grouped into three categories: ENDO, ULT, and UFG. Time from surgery to stricture recurrence by surgery type was analyzed using a Kaplan–Meier time to event analysis. To adjust for confounders, a Cox proportional hazard model was fit for time to stricture recurrence. Results Two‐hundred and ten patients met the inclusion criteria across 23 sites. Overall, 64% ( n = 115/180) of women remained recurrence free at median follow‐up of 14.6 months (IQR, 3–37). In unadjusted analysis, recurrence‐free rates differed between surgery categories with 68% ENDO, 77% UFG and 83% ULT patients being recurrence free at 12 months. In the Cox model, recurrence rates also differed between surgery categories; women undergoing ULT and UFG having had 66% and 49% less risk of recurrence, respectively, compared to those undergoing ENDO. When comparing ULT to UFG directly, there was no significant difference of recurrence. Conclusion This retrospective multi‐institutional study of female urethral stricture demonstrates that patients undergoing endoscopic management have a higher risk of recurrence compared to those undergoing either urethroplasty with local flap or free graft.