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Enfortumab Vedotin and Pembrolizumab in Untreated Advanced Urothelial Cancer

Thomas Powles, Begoña P. Valderrama, Shilpa Gupta, Jens Bedke, Eiji Kikuchi, Jean Hoffman‐Censits, Gopa Iyer, Christof Vulsteke, Se Hoon Park, Sang Joon Shin, Daniel Castellano, Giuseppe Fornarini, Jian‐Ri Li, Mahmut Gümüş, Nataliya Mar, Yohann Loriot, Aude Fléchon, Ignacio Durán, Alexandra Drakaki, Sujata Narayanan, Xuesong Yu, Seema Rao Gorla, Blanca Homet Moreno, Michiel S. van der Heijden

New England Journal of Medicine · 2024

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Summary

BACKGROUND: No treatment has surpassed platinum-based chemotherapy in improving overall survival in patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma. METHODS: We conducted a phase 3, global, open-label, randomized trial to compare the efficacy and safety of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab with the efficacy and safety of platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive 3-week cycles of enfortumab vedotin (at a dose of 1.25 mg per kilogram of body weight intravenously on days 1 and 8) and pembrolizumab (at a dose of 200 mg intravenously on day 1) (enfortumab vedotin-pembrolizumab group) or gemcitabine and either cisplatin o

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1056/nejmoa2312117
Catalogue ID
BFmokjoc86-ixz1k6
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