Trial purpose
Cancer treatment
Tumor type
Genitourinary
Age
18+
Clinical summary
Summary
Eligible patients will be randomised to receive standard of care surgery alone OR in combination with 3 preoperative cycles of pembrolizumab and 14 cycles of postoperative pembrolizumab.
Conditions
This trial is treating people with muscle invasive bladder cancer
Eligibility
Exclusion
- Known additional nonurothelial malignancy that is progressing or has required active anticancer treatment ≤3 years of study randomization, with certain exceptions
- Has ≥ N2 or metastatic disease (M1) as identified by imaging
- Received any prior systemic treatment, chemoradiation, and/or radiation therapy for for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) or non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC)
- Received prior therapy with an anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), or anti-programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L2), or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or coinhibitory T-cell receptor
- Received prior systemic anticancer therapy including investigational agents within 3 years prior to randomization
- Received any prior radiotherapy to the bladder
- Received a partial cystectomy of the bladder to remove any non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) or MIBC
- Received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention
- Current participation in or participation in a study of an investigational agent or use of an investigational device within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study intervention
- Ongoing sensory or motor neuropathy Grade 2 or higher
- Diagnosis of immunodeficiency or receipt of chronic systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior the first dose of study drug. Physiologic replacement doses of corticosteroids are permitted for participants with adrenal insufficiency.
- Hypersensitivity to monoclonal antibodies (including pembrolizumab) and/or any of their excipients
- Severe hypersensitivity (≥ Grade 3) to enfortumab vedotin or any excipient contained in the drug formulation of enfortumab vedotin
- Active keratitis or corneal ulcerations. Participants with superficial punctate keratitis are allowed if the disorder is being adequately treated in the opinion of the investigator
- Active autoimmune disease that has required systemic therapy in past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is not considered a form of systemic therapy and is allowed
- Has uncontrolled diabetes
- History of (noninfectious) pneumonitis that required steroids, or current pneumonitis
- Active infection requiring systemic therapy
- Has had an allogeneic tissue/solid organ transplant
Exclusion
- You have been diagnosed with a prior or secondary type of cancer.
- You have certain types of non-cancer medical conditions.
- You have had certain treatments, surgical procedures or drugs.
- You are currently being treated on a clinical trial.
Clinical trials have complex eligibility criteria, and other criteria may apply for this trial. Ask your doctor about whether this trial could be right for you.
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Trial Identifiers
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Trial sponsor
Merck
Scientific Title
A Phase 3 Randomized Study of Cystectomy Plus Perioperative Pembrolizumab Versus Cystectomy Alone in Cisplatin-ineligible Participants With Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer
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