Clinical and genomic predictors of outcomes in patients (pts) with advanced urothelial carcinoma (aUC) treated with enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab (EVP): UNITE study analysis.

4560 Background: EVP is the recommended 1 st line (1L) therapy for pts with aUC and is moving into the perioperative setting. There is limited understanding of clinical factors and biomarkers predictive of EVP outcomes. Methods: We analyzed pts with aUC treated with EVP in the multi-site retrospective UNITE study. χ 2 test and logistic regression were used to assess observed response rate (ORR) and disease control rate (DCR). Log-rank test and Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) from EVP start. Multivariable analysis (MVA) included age, sex, race, ECOG performance status (PS), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), albumin, hemoglobin (Hgb), primary tumor site, histology, treatment line, and metastatic sites as covariates. Results: A total of 521 pts with aUC from 16 sites received EVP. Median age was 71, 75% were male, 81% were Caucasian, 76% had ECOG PS 0-1, and 72% were treated with 1L EVP. 74% had lower tract primary tumor, 65% pure urothelial histology, 18% liver metastases (mets), 43% non-liver visceral mets, and 28% lymph node (LN)-only mets. At 8.1 mos median follow-up from EVP start, the overall cohort had ORR 55%, DCR 82% [16% complete response (CR), 39% partial response (PR), 27% stable disease (SD)], median PFS (mPFS) 6.5 mos, and median OS (mOS) 19.8 mos. For 1L EVP pts, at 9.8 mos median follow-up, ORR was 59%, DCR 83% (20% CR, 39% PR, 24% SD), mPFS 10.1 mos, and mOS 23.3 mos. In both the overall cohort and 1L EVP pts, clinical factors associated with longer PFS and OS included ECOG PS 0-1, Caucasian race, albumin ≥ 3.5 g/dL, Hgb ≥ 10g/dL, NLR < 5, and absence of visceral mets. CR was associated with ECOG PS 0-1 (OR 3.6, 95% CI 1.4-12.5, p = 0.02), Hgb ≥ 10g/dL (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.2-4.8, p = 0.02), NLR < 5 (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.5-5.3, p = 0.002), LN-only mets (HR 3.8, 95% CI 1.7-9.8, p = 0.003), immunotherapy-naive status (OR 4.1, 95% CI 1.4-17, p = 0.02), and 1L EVP for aUC (OR 3.3, 95% CI 1.7-7.3, p = 0.001). Pts with CR had longer mPFS than pts with PR or SD (26.5 vs. 14.5 vs. 7.5 mos, p < 0.001) and longer mOS (NR vs. 33.4 vs. 14.5 mos, p < 0.001). Among 315 pts with molecular profiling, the most common alterations were in TERTp (55%), TP53 (45%), FGFR3 (22%), ARID1A (19%), KMT2D (18%), PIK3CA (18%), and CDKN2A/B (17%). In MVA, KMT2D alterations were associated with lower CR rate (6% vs. 19%, p = 0.05), shorter mPFS (5.0 vs. 8.0 mos, p = 0.04), and shorter mOS (12.0 vs. 20.0 mos, p = 0.04). Very high tumor mutational burden (≥ 15 mut/Mb) was associated with higher DCR (97% vs. 79%, p = 0.04) but no significant difference in PFS or OS. Conclusions: In this large real-world cohort, ECOG PS, metastatic site, treatment line, and prior immunotherapy exposure were associated with EVP outcomes. KMT2D -altered aUC may represent a high-risk molecular subset with worse outcomes. Further validation in prospective cohorts is needed.

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Clinical and genomic predictors of outcomes in patients (pts) with advanced urothelial carcinoma (aUC) treated with enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab (EVP): UNITE study analysis.

Elise Y. Cai, Irene Tsung, Cindy Jiang, Eugene Oh et al.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
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Clinical and genomic predictors of outcomes in patients (pts) with advanced urothelial carcinoma (aUC) treated with enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab (EVP): UNITE study analysis.

Elise Y. Cai, Irene Tsung, Cindy Jiang, Eugene Oh, Vadim S. Koshkin, Tanya Jindal, Jason Robert Brown, Catherine Fahey, Zachariah Thomas, Jeffrey Yinhong Zhong, Salvador Jamie Casas, S Gupta, Omar Alhalabi, M Campbell, Li Zhang, Petros Grivas, Sumit Shah, Arnab Basu, Abhishek Tripathi, Kevin R. Reyes
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4560 Background: EVP is the recommended 1 st line (1L) therapy for pts with aUC and is moving into the perioperative setting. There is limited understanding of clinical factors and biomarkers predictive of EVP outcomes. Methods: We analyzed pts with aUC treated with EVP in the multi-site retrospective UNITE study. χ 2 test and logistic regression were used to assess observed response rate (ORR) and disease control rate (DCR). Log-rank test and Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) from EVP start. Multivariable analysis (MVA) included age, sex, race, ECOG performance status (PS), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), albumin, hemoglobin (Hgb), primary tumor site, histology, treatment line, and metastatic sites as covariates. Results: A total of 521 pts with aUC from 16 sites received EVP. Median age was 71, 75% were male, 81% were Caucasian, 76% had ECOG PS 0-1, and 72% were treated with 1L EVP. 74% had lower tract primary tumor, 65% pure urothelial histology, 18% liver metastases (mets), 43% non-liver visceral mets, and 28% lymph node (LN)-only mets. At 8.1 mos median follow-up from EVP start, the overall cohort had ORR 55%, DCR 82% [16% complete response (CR), 39% partial response (PR), 27% stable disease (SD)], median PFS (mPFS) 6.5 mos, and median OS (mOS) 19.8 mos. For 1L EVP pts, at 9.8 mos median follow-up, ORR was 59%, DCR 83% (20% CR, 39% PR, 24% SD), mPFS 10.1 mos, and mOS 23.3 mos. In both the overall cohort and 1L EVP pts, clinical factors associated with longer PFS and OS included ECOG PS 0-1, Caucasian race, albumin ≥ 3.5 g/dL, Hgb ≥ 10g/dL, NLR < 5, and absence of visceral mets. CR was associated with ECOG PS 0-1 (OR 3.6, 95% CI 1.4-12.5, p = 0.02), Hgb ≥ 10g/dL (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.2-4.8, p = 0.02), NLR < 5 (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.5-5.3, p = 0.002), LN-only mets (HR 3.8, 95% CI 1.7-9.8, p = 0.003), immunotherapy-naive status (OR 4.1, 95% CI 1.4-17, p = 0.02), and 1L EVP for aUC (OR 3.3, 95% CI 1.7-7.3, p = 0.001). Pts with CR had longer mPFS than pts with PR or SD (26.5 vs. 14.5 vs. 7.5 mos, p < 0.001) and longer mOS (NR vs. 33.4 vs. 14.5 mos, p < 0.001). Among 315 pts with molecular profiling, the most common alterations were in TERTp (55%), TP53 (45%), FGFR3 (22%), ARID1A (19%), KMT2D (18%), PIK3CA (18%), and CDKN2A/B (17%). In MVA, KMT2D alterations were associated with lower CR rate (6% vs. 19%, p = 0.05), shorter mPFS (5.0 vs. 8.0 mos, p = 0.04), and shorter mOS (12.0 vs. 20.0 mos, p = 0.04). Very high tumor mutational burden (≥ 15 mut/Mb) was associated with higher DCR (97% vs. 79%, p = 0.04) but no significant difference in PFS or OS. Conclusions: In this large real-world cohort, ECOG PS, metastatic site, treatment line, and prior immunotherapy exposure were associated with EVP outcomes. KMT2D -altered aUC may represent a high-risk molecular subset with worse outcomes. Further validation in prospective cohorts is needed.

Journal of Clinical OncologyVol. 44(16_suppl)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US), Cleveland Clinic (US), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (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), University School (US), UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (US), Case Western Reserve University (US)
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