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ESMO: Padcev/Keytruda Combo Edges Closer To First-Line Bladder Cancer Filing

Big Boost For Seagen

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Full data presented at ESMO from a closely watched trial of Seagen/Astellas’s Padcev and Merck & Co’s Keytruda should support regulatory approval of the combination in cisplatin-ineligible first-line metastatic urothelial cancer patients but concerns over duration of treatment remain.

First-line approval is the target for Padcev/Keytruda combo • Source: Shutterstock

The chances of the much-touted combination of Seagen Inc./Astellas Pharma, Inc.'s Padcev and Merck & Co., Inc.'s Keytruda getting approval in first-line urothelial cancer would appear to have improved on the back of more positive data presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology conference in Paris.

Cohort K of the Phase Ib/II EV-103/KEYNOTE-869 trial compared a combination of the antibody-drug conjugate Padcev (enfortumab vedotin) and the...

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