In this video, Fed Ghali, MD, a urologic oncology fellow at the University of Washington, says that variant histology bladder cancers express Nectin-4 and Trop-2, which are cell surface targets of the FDA-approved antibody-drug conjugates, enfortumab-vedotin (Padcev) and sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy), respectively. Ghali presented the abstract, “Antibody-drug conjugates and variant histology muscle-invasive bladder cancer: are the targets present in primary and/or metastatic tumors?” at the 2022 AUA Annual Meeting (abstract PD53-09).
Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab improves survival in frontline urothelial cancer
September 22nd 2023The EV-302 trial is the confirmatory trial for the FDA’s accelerated approval of pembrolizumab plus enfortumab vedotin for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.
Speaking of Urology Podcast: Dr. Ritch and Dr. Katz discuss new bladder cancer management app
December 7th 2021“It's not a replacement for clinical judgment, obviously. But at the end of the day, the idea is that it shows you what your next steps are based on what the American Urological Association and [Society of Urologic Oncology] guidelines are for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer,” Chad R. Ritch, MD, MBA, FACS.
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