Outcomes of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab for patients previously treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors in the UNITE study.
867 Background: In trials testing enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab (EVP), prior treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) was not permitted, resulting in a knowledge gap regarding efficacy of EVP in patients (pts) previously treated with ICIs. We hypothesized that EVP would have efficacy in pts with prior ICI exposure. Methods: In the retrospective UNITE study, we identified all pts treated with ICI prior to receiving EVP. The observed response rate (ORR) was assessed in evaluable pts who had imaging after ≥1 cycle of EVP. The following factors were evaluated to assess effect on EVP outcomes: type of ICI received (PD-1 vs PD-L1), prior pembrolizumab vs other ICI, time from last ICI to start of EVP, duration on prior ICI treatment, whether patient had clinical benefit (SD/PR/CR) to prior ICI, whether ICI was the immediate prior therapy line and whether it was the only prior line. ORR for these categories was compared using logistic regression, while progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) from EVP start were analyzed using the log-rank test and Cox proportional hazards model. Results: Among 220 pts treated with EVP across 10 US sites, 43 (20%) had previously received ICI. Median age was 69 years; 34 (79%) were men, 40 (93%) were Caucasian, and 27 (63%) had pure urothelial carcinoma, 9 (21%) liver mets and 31 (72%) ECOG PS 0/1. Of 43 pts, 4 received ICI in the peri-operative setting (3 nivolumab, 1 pembrolizumab) and 39 in the metastatic setting (19 pembrolizumab, 8 avelumab maintenance, 6 nivolumab, 2 pembrolizumab maintenance and 1 each of atezolizumab, ipilimumab/nivolumab, durvalumab/tremelimumab, nivolumab/NKTR214). ORR was 48% (95% CI: 31 - 66) in 33 evaluable pts, with 13 (39%) PR and 3 (9%) CR; 30% had SD as best response (DCR 79%), and 21% PD. After median follow-up of 14 mos, median PFS was 6.9 mos (95% CI: 3.91 – 12.2) and median OS 15.4 mos (95% CI: 8.7 – NR). Outcomes by group are shown in the Table. Conclusions: Pts treated with EVP after prior ICI experienced high ORR and disease control rate. Results from this multi-site retrospective study are hypothesis-generating and require prospective validation in larger cohorts. Groups ORR PFS OS OR (95% CI) p-value HR (95% CI) p-value HR (95% CI) p-value Type of ICI (PD-1 vs PD-L1) 2.15 (0.36 – 17.49) 0.4 0.72 (0.32 – 1.61) 0.4 0.59 (0.23 -1.52) 0.3 Prior pembrolizumab vs not 0.54 (0.12 – 2.23) 0.4 0.55 (0.26 – 1.16) 0.1 0.40 (0.15 – 1.02) 0.05 Time from prior ICI* 1.01 (0.98 – 1.05) 0. 5 0.99 (0.98 – 1.01) 0.9 0.98 (0.96 – 1.02) 0.3 Time on prior ICI* 0.87 (0.74 - 0.98) 0.05 0.99 (0.94 – 1.05) 0.9 0.97 (0.89 – 1.05) 0.4 Clinical benefit to prior ICI (DCR vs PD) 0.50 (0.08 – 2.75) 0.4 0.70 (0.27 – 1.81) 0.5 0.89 (0.29 – 2.73) 0.8 Multiple prior lines vs ICI as only prior line 0.51 (0.11 – 2.29) 0.4 1.40 (0.57 – 3.44) 0.5 1.87 (0.54 – 6.43) 0.3 ICI as immediate prior line vs not 0.93 (0.15 -5.82) 0.9 0.56 (0.20 – 1.57) 0.3 0.53 (0.17 – 1.64) 0.3 *Continuous.
Authors
- Omar Alhalabi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-2206)
- Matthew T. Campbell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1915-4491)
- Cindy Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2459-1875)
- Arnab Basu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8678-3880)
- Albert Jang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0461-6174)
- Petros D. Grivas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-3394)
- Vadim S. Koshkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2277-8668)
- Ajjai Alva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1898-3522)
- Mehmet Asım Bilen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4003-1103)
- Tanya Jindal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5954-3278)
- Jason Robert Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-7555)
- Amanda Nizam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5181-490X)
- Abhishek Tripathi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5198-0673)
- Sumit Shah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9479-2333)
- Shilpa Gupta
- Dimitra Rafailia Bakaloudi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1214-7507)
- Fady Sidhom
- Salvador Jaime‐Casas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4334-1300)
- Michael Glover (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9811-9004)
- I.S. Inderpreet Singh Narula
Institutions
- Cleveland Clinic (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
- City of Hope (US)
- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology (US)
- University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (US)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Published
- 2025-02-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2025.43.5_suppl.867
- Primary Topic
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00