Pembrolizumab for the treatment of patients with high-risk (HR) non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) unresponsive to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin: Extended follow-up of KEYNOTE-057 cohort A.

Authors

Arjun Balar

Arjun Vasant Balar

Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY

Arjun Vasant Balar , Ashish M. Kamat , Girish S. Kulkarni , Edward M. Uchio , Joost L. Boormans , Mathieu Roumiguié , Laurence Eliot Miles Krieger , Eric A. Singer , Dean F. Bajorin , Petros Grivas , Ho Kyung Seo , Hiroyuki Nishiyama , Badrinath R. Konety , Kijoeng Nam , João Paulo Zambon , Ekta Kapadia , Ronald De Wit

Organizations

Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, UC Irvine Health, Orange, CA, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse Oncopole CHU, Toulouse, France, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Cancer Institute, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA

Background: Pembrolizumab (pembro) was approved in January 2020 for treatment of HR NMIBC based on interim results from 96 patients (pts) in the open-label, single-arm, multicenter, phase II KEYNOTE-057 (NCT02625961) study. Here we present updated efficacy and safety results with extended minimum follow-up of 26.3 mo from KEYNOTE-057 cohort A. Methods: Pts aged ≥18 years with histologically confirmed Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)–unresponsive HR carcinoma in situ (CIS), with or without papillary tumors, who were ineligible for or declined radical cystectomy (RC) received pembro 200 mg Q3W for up to 24 mo or until disease persistence, recurrence, progression, or unacceptable toxicity. Primary end point: complete response rate (CRR). Key secondary end points: duration of response (DOR) and safety. Results: Overall, 101 pts received pembro and 96 were included in the efficacy analysis (5 patients did not meet BCG-unresponsive criteria). Median age was 73 years (range, 44-92), and pts received a median of 12.0 (range, 7.0-45.0) BCG instillations. Median time from enrollment to data cutoff date of May 25, 2020, was 36.4 mo (range, 26.3-48.5). Of 96 pts, CRR was 40.6% (95% CI, 30.7-51.1) at first evaluable disease assessment, and median DOR was 16.2 mo (range, 0.0+ to 36.2). Of 39 responders, 13 (33.3%) remained in CR ≥18 mo and 9 (23.1%) remained in CR ≥24 mo as of the data cutoff date. No pt progressed to MIBC while on study treatment based on protocol-specified disease assessments. CRR was generally consistent with the primary analysis across protocol-prespecified subgroups, including PD-L1 expression status. Forty pts (41.7%) underwent RC after discontinuation of pembro; 35 pts (88%) had no pathologic upstaging to MIBC, 2 (5%) had no available pathology data, and 3 (8%) had evidence of MIBC (all nonresponders); 1 pt had pT2N0 disease at 60 days after the last pembro dose, 1 pt had pT2N1 disease (involvement of a single perivesical lymph node) at 86 days after the last pembro dose, and 1 pt had pT3N1 disease at 457 days after the last pembro dose. For other subsequent treatments, 30 of 96 pts (31.3%) received additional intravesical therapy (eg, BCG), 27 of 96 (28.1%) underwent local procedures (eg, TURBT), and 10 of 96 (10.4%) received systemic therapy. In 101 pts, treatment-related AEs (TRAEs) occurred in 67 pts (66.3%); most frequent were diarrhea, fatigue, and pruritus (10.9% each). Grade 3/4 TRAEs occurred in 13 pts (12.9%). Twenty-two pts (21.8%) experienced immune-related AEs; 3.0% were grade 3-4. Seven pts (6.9%) discontinued due to TRAEs. There were no grade 5 TRAEs. Conclusions: With extended follow-up, pembro continued to show durable and clinically meaningful activity in pts who had HR BCG-unresponsive CIS with or without papillary tumors and who were ineligible for or declined RC. No new safety risks were identified. Clinical trial information: NCT02625961

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session: Urothelial Carcinoma

Track

Urothelial Carcinoma

Sub Track

Therapeutics

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT02625961

Citation

J Clin Oncol 39, 2021 (suppl 6; abstr 451)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.6_suppl.451

Abstract #

451

Poster Bd #

Online Only

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