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Association Between Early on-Treatment Weight Loss With Enfortumab Vedotin Plus Pembrolizumab and Survival in Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Combination therapy with enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab (EV+P) is now the preferred first-line (1L) therapy for advanced urothelial carcinoma (aUC), but prognostic indicators for patients on 1L EV+P have not yet been described. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients receiving 1L EV+P for aUC. We analyzed deidentified electronic health record data from the Flatiron Health database to identify adults with aUC who initiated EV+P between April 3, 2023 and December 31, 2024. Inclusion required absence of death, disease progression, or second line therapy start within 30 days of EV+P initiation, as well as documented weight measurements at the time of EV+P initiation (i.e., day 0) and day 28. We used Cox proportional hazards modeling with stabilized inverse probability treatment weighting (IPTW) to evaluate the association of early on-treatment weight loss with overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and time to EV discontinuation. RESULTS: ), but not with PFS (aHR = 1.22 [0.89-1.65], P = .22) or time to EV discontinuation (aHR = 1.30 [0.96-1.77], P = .090). The association of early on-treatment weight loss with OS was conserved in subgroup analyses stratifying patients by baseline albumin or BMI. CONCLUSION: Early weight loss ≥5% occurred in one fifth of patients receiving 1L EV+P treatment and was associated with inferior overall survival.

Source: Clinical Genitourinary Cancer

DOI: 10.1016/j.clgc.2025.102417

Authors: Ryan D. Chow, Ronac Mamtani

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Language: English

Topic: Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,530