Bladder Cancer

A Nectin-4–directed drug received FDA Fast Track Designation based on preclinical and clinical data showing potential efficacy and safety in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

Parminder Singh, MD, discusses the safety associated with standard-of-care tri-modality therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer and the addition of atezolizumab to standard of cancer.

Dr Terence Friedlander closes his discussion by highlighting ongoing clinicals in neoadjuvant MIBC treatment that excite him and speculates on how he would use immunotherapy in patients with MIBC if it were available for use in both the neoadjuvant and adjuvant setting.

Terence Friedlander, MD, summarizes the remaining unmet needs for patients with MIBC.

Dr Terence Friedlander explains which adjuvant therapy he would have recommended for the patient with MIBC from the presented case.

Terence Friedlander, MD, continues his discussion of the CheckMate 247 trial by highlighting important updates from recent conferences on adjuvant nivolumab therapy in patients with MIBC.

For patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer, the FDA has accepted for priority review supplemental biologics license applications for enfortumab vedotin-ejfv and pembrolizumab.

Patients with low-grade upper tract urothelial cancer elicited a clinical benefit at the end of the phase 3 OLYMPUS study when treated with UGN-101.

The phase 1 INSIGHT-005 trial will further evaluate the combination of eftilagimod alpha and avelumab in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer.

New phase 3 data has led to Genentech removing the US indication of atezolizumab for treatment of patients ineligible for cisplatin chemotherapy with metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

During a Targeted Oncology case-based roundtable event, Daniel Petrylak, MD, discussed with participants the case of a patient with bladder cancer who has lung metastases and significant pulmonary comorbidities.

Results from the ARIES trial continue to show the benefit of avelumab monotherapy as a first-line drug for patients with metastatic urothelial cancer with PD-L1 expression.

During a Targeted Oncology case-based roundtable event, Pedro Barata, MD, MSc, discussed with participants their approaches to therapy for a patient whose bladder cancer progresses after receiving chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Philippe Barthelemy, MD, discussed the preliminary findings of the AVENANCE trial of avelumab in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching, discussed recent updates from the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial. She also discussed ongoing research involving the novel agent EV-103 in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

The combination of toripalimab and chemotherapy displayed promising efficacy results in a phase 2 study.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Jonathan Rosenberg, MD, further discussed the background and results of the EV-103 study in patients with locally advanced metastatic urothelial cancer.

The combination of enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab led to a confirmed overall response rate of 64.5% in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer.

Multiple blood-based biomarkers suggest potential responses to treatment with maintenance avelumab for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma from the phase 3 JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial, according to an exploratory analysis presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2022.

The PARP inhibitor rucaparib was shown to improve progression-free survival in a cohort of the ATLANTIS study platform for metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

During the 2022 Debates and Didactics in Hematology and Oncology conference, Bassel Nazha, MD, MPH and Jacqueline T. Brown, MD, debated on adjuvant vs neoadjuvant systemic therapy for patients with upper tract urothelial cancer.

The FDA has accepted the biologics license application for N-803 as a treatment for patients with Bacillus Calmette–Guérin-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ with or without Ta or T1 disease.

Results from a phase 3 study of pembrolizumab and nadofaragene firadenovec in patients with BCG-unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer suggests that immune checkpoint inhibitors have synergy with antibody drug conjugates.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Vignesh Packiam, MD, discussed the research of gemcitabine plus cabazitaxel and pembrolizumab in patients with non-muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma who are unresponsive to docetaxel.

The development of vicineum for the treatment of patients with high-risk, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin-unresponsive non–muscle invasive bladder cancer has been voluntarily paused.