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Adjuvant Pembrolizumab versus Observation in Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma.
Adjuvant Pembrolizumab versus Observation in Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma. The New England journal of medicine Apolo, A. B., Ballman, K. V., Sonpavde, G., Berg, S., Kim, W. Y., Parikh, R., Teo, M. Y., Sweis, R. F., Geynisman, D. M., Grivas, P., Chatta, G., Reichert, Z. R., Kim, J. W., Bilen, M. A., McGregor, B., Singh, P., Tripathi, A., Cole, S., Simon, N., Niglio, S., Ley, L., Cordes, L., Srinivas, S., Huang, J., Odegaard, M., Watt, C., Petrylak, D., Hoffman-Censits, J., Wen, Y., Hahn, O., Mitchell, C., Tan, A., Streicher, H., Sharon, E., Moon, H., Woods, M., Halabi, S., Perez Burbano, G., Morris, M. J., Rosenberg, J. E. 2024Abstract
Muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma is an aggressive disease with high rates of relapse. Whether pembrolizumab as adjuvant therapy would be effective in patients with high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma after radical surgery is unknown.In this phase 3 trial, we randomly assigned patients, in a 1:1 ratio, to receive pembrolizumab at a dose of 200 mg every 3 weeks for 1 year or to undergo observation. Randomization was stratified according to pathological stage, centrally tested programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) status, and previous neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The coprimary end points were disease-free survival and overall survival in the intention-to-treat population. We considered the trial to be successful if either disease-free survival or overall survival was significantly longer with pembrolizumab than with observation.A total of 702 patients underwent randomization; 354 were assigned to receive pembrolizumab, and 348 were assigned to observation. As of July 5, 2024, the median duration of follow-up for disease-free survival was 44.8 months. The median disease-free survival was 29.6 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 20.0 to 40.7) with pembrolizumab and 14.2 months (95% CI, 11.0 to 20.2) with observation (hazard ratio for disease progression or death, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.59 to 0.90; two-sided P?=?0.003). Grade 3 or higher adverse events (regardless of attribution) occurred in 50.7% of the patients in the pembrolizumab group and in 31.6% of the patients in the observation group.Among patients with high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma after radical surgery, disease-free survival was significantly longer with adjuvant pembrolizumab than with observation. (Funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health and others; Alliance A031501 AMBASSADOR ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03244384.).
View details for DOI 10.1056/NEJMoa2401726
View details for PubMedID 39282902