Effect of on-treatment dose adjustments on the efficacy of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab (EVP) in advanced urothelial carcinoma (aUC): A UNITE analysis.
4565 Background: EVP is the preferred 1 st -line regimen for patients (pts) with aUC. EV-related toxicities are often managed with dose adjustments, such as reductions and holds. Analysis of EV monotherapy trials showed consistent survival outcomes despite dose adjustments. We hypothesized that on-treatment EV dose adjustments would not impact survival in these pts. Methods: Pts with aUC treated with EVP in the multisite UNITE study were analyzed. Early dose reductions (DR) and holds were defined as occurring < 9 weeks from EVP start, with the remainder classified as late. Pts with DR at treatment start were excluded. Survival endpoints were progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) from EVP start, assessed by Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox models. Multivariable Cox analysis (MVA) included age (≥ 75 vs < 75), ECOG performance status (0-1 vs 2-3), Hgb level (< 10 vs ≥ 10) and liver metastases (present vs not). A time-dependent covariate was used to reduce immortal time bias. Complementary MVA landmark analyses were performed, aligned to the total number of treatment cycles received, with six analyses from cycles 2 to 7. Results: 360 pts from 17 sites were included (median age 70; 78% Caucasian; 76% male; 27% upper tract primary; 35% histology subtype component; 17% with liver metastasis; 78% frontline); median follow-up was 11.7 months (95% CI [10.79, 13.08]). Median number of cycles was 6 in pts with DR and 3 with no DR. Early DRs (100 pts [28%]) and holds (18 pts [5%]) were most commonly due to rash (28% of all early DRs and holds). Late DR (75 pts [21%]) and holds (50 pts [14%]) were most commonly due to neuropathy (52% of all late DRs and holds). Pts with early or late DR had longer PFS and OS vs those who did not (Table); however, there was no significant PFS or OS difference with dose hold vs no hold (PFS HR 0.65, 95%CI (0.40, 1.05), p = 0.08; OS HR 0.70, 95%CI (0.39, 1.27), p=0.24). In landmark analyses, about 50% of pts had DR; no significant difference in PFS or OS was observed at most landmarks, except for longer OS in the DR cohort at cycle 4 (HR 0.53, 95% CI (0.29, 0.98), p = 0.042) and cycle 5 (HR 0.43, 95% CI (0.19, 0.99), p = 0.048). Conclusions: In this real-world retrospective analysis, EVP efficacy was maintained despite DR and dose holds. Survival difference noted in the time-dependent analyses were not consistently reproduced in landmark analyses, suggesting exposure-related selection bias rather than causal effect. Prospective studies are warranted to validate these hypothesis-generating findings. Association of EV DR with PFS/OS (time-dependent analyses). Early DR Late DR DR vs no DR outcomes UVAHR (95% CI), p MVAHR (95% CI), p UVAHR (95% CI), p MVAHR (95% CI), p PFS 0.50 (0.35, 0.72), <.001 0.56 (0.38, 0.84), 0.005 0.32 (0.21, 0.49), <.001 0.36 (0.23, 0.57), <.001 OS 0.51 (0.32, 0.79), 0.003 0.57 (0.35, 0.92), 0.022 0.26 (0.15, 0.45), <.001 0.31 (0.17, 0.55), <.001
Authors
- Irene Tsung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9105-8659)
- Cindy Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2459-1875)
- Ali Raza Khaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4655-4426)
- Eugene Oh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6350-1422)
- Vadim S. Koshkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2277-8668)
- Tanya Jindal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5954-3278)
- Albert Jang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6375-4550)
- Jason Robert Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-7555)
- Charles B. Nguyen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1898-5501)
- Zhengyi Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-945X)
- Dimitra Bakaloudi
- Jeffrey Yinhong Zhong
- Fu P
- Omar Alhalabi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-2206)
- M Campbell
- Melissa A. Reimers
- Salvador Jaime-Casas
- Petros Grivas
- Abhishek Tripathi
- Zachariah Thomas
Institutions
- Mayo Clinic (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
- City of Hope (US)
- University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center (US)
- Mayo Clinic in Arizona (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
- 2026-05-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2026.44.16_suppl.4565
- Primary Topic
- Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00