Pembrolizumab (pembro) for patients (pts) with high-risk (HR) non–muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG): Updated follow-up from KEYNOTE-057.
Methods: Pts with histologically confirmed HR, BCG-unresponsive CIS with or without papillary tumors who received adequate BCG therapy and were unable/refused to undergo radical cystectomy received pembro 200 mg Q3W for 24 mo or until recurrence, progression, or unacceptable toxicity. Pts who developed HR NMIBC or progressive disease during treatment were required to discontinue. Key end points were complete response rate (CRR), duration of response, and safety.
Results: 102 pts (median age, 73 years; CIS alone, 63.7%; median number of prior BCG instillations, 12) had enrolled in cohort A as of enrollment cutoff. Median (range) duration of follow-up was 15.8 mo (4.6-28.2); 3-mo CRR was 40.2% (95% CI, 30.6-50.4) by central assessment. Among 41 pts who had CR at 3 mo, median CR duration was 12.7 mo (range, 0+ to 20.5+ mo); 75.4% had a CR duration ≥6 mo; 52.6% had a CR duration ≥12 mo (Kaplan-Meier method); 24 pts (58.5%) maintained CR at last follow-up, and 15 (36.6%) experienced recurrent NMIBC after CR; at the time of analysis, none progressed to muscle-invasive or metastatic disease. CRR was 44.6% for pts with CIS alone (n = 65), 41.7% for CIS with T1 tumors (n = 12), and 28.0% for CIS with high-grade Ta tumors (n = 25). Treatment-related adverse events (AEs) occurred in 66 (64.7%) pts; most frequent (≥10%) were pruritus (10.8%), diarrhea (10.8%), and fatigue (9.8%). Grade 3/4 treatment-related AEs occurred in 13 (12.7%) pts. Immune-mediated AEs occurred in 19 (18.6%) pts.
Conclusions: Pembro continued to show encouraging antitumor activity in pts with HR, BCG-unresponsive CIS with or without papillary tumors and a safety profile consistent with that of previous experience. Updated data using additional follow-up will be presented.
Clinical trial information: NCT02625961.
Authors: Ronald De Wit, Girish S. Kulkarni, Edward M. Uchio, Laurence Eliot Miles Krieger, Joost L. Boormans, Mathieu Roumiguié, Eric A. Singer, Dean F. Bajorin, Ashish M. Kamat, Petros Grivas, Ho Kyung Seo, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Badrinath R. Konety, Kijoeng Nam, Ekta Kapadia, Tara L. Frenkl, Arjun Vasant Balar
Affiliations: Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; UHN Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; UC Irvine Health, Orange, CA; Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Cancer Institute, St Leonards, NSW, Australia; Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse Oncopole CHU, Toulouse, France; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea; University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ; Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
Reference:
1. De Wit, Ronald, Girish S. Kulkarni, Edward M. Uchio, Laurence Eliot Miles Krieger, Joost L. Boormans, Mathieu Roumiguié, and Eric A. Singer et al. 2019. "Pembrolizumab (Pembro) For Patients (Pts) With High-Risk (HR) Non–Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) Unresponsive To Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG): Updated Follow-Up From KEYNOTE-057.". Journal Of Clinical Oncology 37 (15_suppl): 4530-4530. doi:10.1200/jco.2019.37.15_suppl.4530.
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