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...

Today, AstraZeneca voluntarily withdrew the indication of durvalumab (Imfinzi®, AstraZeneca) for patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma based on results of the phase 3 DANUBE trial (NCT02516241), which did not meet its primary end points. The withdrawal does not affect durvalumab's indications for non-small cell lung cancer or for extensive stage small-cell lung cancer. Durvalumab, a human monoclonal antibody that binds to programmed death ligand 1 (...

The FDA recently approved avelumab (Bavencio®, EMD Serono, Inc.) for patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC). Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD, discusses with i3 Health the implication of this approval and future steps for research and offers community oncologists advice on treating this patient population. What are the most challenging aspects of treating patients with locally advanced or metastatic UC? Thomas Powles, MBBS, MRCP, MD: The overall survival outcomes are poor for the disease....