48TiP TroFuse-036/GOG-3123/ENGOT-cx22: A 2-part, phase III, randomized study of sacituzumab tirumotecan (sac-TMT) + pembrolizumab (pembro) ± bevacizumab (bev) vs standard of care (SoC) as first-line maintenance therapy for PD-L1–positive cervical can
Sac-TMT is a TROP2-directed ADC with a unique, bifunctional linker that maximizes payload delivery to tumor cells. In a prior phase II study, sac-TMT + pembro had promising antitumor activity (ORR, 58% [22/38]) in participants (pts) with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer that progressed on/after platinum-doublet chemo. TroFuse-036/GOG-3123/ENGOT-cx22 (NCT07216703) is evaluating 1L maintenance sac-TMT + pembro ± bev vs SoC in pts with cervical cancer.
Authors
- V. Desai
- K. Hasegawa
- L. Barraclough
- A.C. de Melo
- B.M. Slomovitz
- D. Cibula
- K.S. Tewari
- T. van Gorp
- A. Farolfi
- L. Fariñas Madrid
- C. Dubot
- JY Lee
- C. Tekin
- I.A. Casarini
- Z. Yu
- A. Ferrero
- N. Cloven
- F. Contreras Mejia
- B.J. Monk
- S. Gupta
Institutions
- Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) (US)
- National University of Mar del Plata (AR)
- Yonsei University (KR)
- Homi Bhabha National Institute (IN)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Charles University (CZ)
- Severance Hospital (KR)
- Tata Memorial Hospital (IN)
- Texas Oncology (US)
- Mount Sinai Medical Center (US)
- University of California, Irvine Medical Center (US)
- Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IT)
- Centre François Baclesse (LU)
- Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (US)
- Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (CO)
- Centre François Baclesse (FR)
- Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari (ES)
- A. O. Ordine Mauriziano di Torino (IT)
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Instituto Nacional de Câncer - INCA (BR)
- Gangnam Severance Hospital (KR)
- Yonsei University Health System (KR)
- General University Hospital in Prague (CZ)
- Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (ES)
- Saitama Medical University (JP)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ESMO Open
- Published
- 2026-07-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esmoop.2026.108073
- Primary Topic
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00