The FDA has granted accelerated approval to enfortumab vedotin-ejfv (Padcev®, Astellas Pharma) with pembrolizumab (Keytruda®, Merck) for treatment of locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma, specifically for patients who are ineligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy. "Both enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab are effective monotherapy treatments in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma," began Christopher Hoimes, Associate Professor of Medicine at t...

For patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma, treatment options are limited after progression on chemotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors, and survival rates remain low. In the phase 3 EV-301 trial, results of which were recently presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, enfortumab vedotin demonstrated promising efficacy in this patient population. In this interview with Oncology Data Advisor, Dr. Thomas Powles, D...

The FDA recently approved enfortumab vedotin (Padcev®, Astellas Pharma US, Inc.) for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma whose disease progressed after treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (anti–PD-1) or anti–programmed death ligand 1 (anti–PD-L1) therapy. The approval was based on EV-201, a phase 2 trial in which enfortumab vedotin produced a high rate of response in patients with locally advanced or m...

​The FDA has approved enfortumab vedotin (Padcev®, Astellas Pharma US, Inc.) for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Enfortumab vedotin is indicated for patients whose disease progressed after prior treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (anti–PD-1) or anti–programmed death ligand 1 (anti–PD-L1) therapy. Enfortumab vedotin targets Nectin-4, a cell adhesion molecule highly expressed in urothelial cancers, and is the first...