Urothelial carcinoma

Active Ingredient: Enfortumab vedotin

Indication for Enfortumab vedotin

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)
Therapeutic intent: Adjuvant - intent

Enfortumab vedotin as monotherapy is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who have previously received a platinum-containing chemotherapy and a programmed death receptor-1 or programmed death-ligand 1 inhibitor.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:

1.25-125 mg/kg on Days 1, 8 and 15 of a 28-day cycle

For:

Dosage regimens

Intravenous, between 1.25 milligrams enfortumab vedotin per kilogram of body weight and 125 milligrams enfortumab vedotin per kilogram of body weight, once every 7 days. The maximum allowed total dose is 125 milligrams enfortumab vedotin per kilogram of body weight every 7 days.

Detailed description

The recommended dose of enfortumab vedotin is 1.25 mg/kg (up to a maximum of 125 mg for patients ≥100 kg) administered as an intravenous infusion over 30 minutes on Days 1, 8 and 15 of a 28-day cycle until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Table 1. Recommended dose reductions for adverse reactions:

 Dose level
Starting dose 1.25 mg/kg up to 125 mg
First dose reduction 1.0 mg/kg up to 100 mg
Second dose reduction 0.75 mg/kg up to 75 mg
Third dose reduction 0.5 mg/kg up to 50 mg

Dose modifications

Table 2. Dose interruption, reduction and discontinuation of enfortumab vedotin in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer:

Adverse reactionSeverity* Dose modification*
Skin reactions Suspected Stevens-Johnson
syndrome (SJS) or toxic
epidermal necrolysis (TEN)
or bullous lesions
Immediately withhold and refer to
specialised care
Confirmed SJS or TEN;
Grade 4 or recurrent Grade 3
Permanently discontinue.
Grade 2 worsening
Grade 2 with fever
Grade 3
• Withhold until Grade ≤1
• Referral to specialised care
should be considered
• Resume at the same dose level or
consider dose reduction by one
dose level (see Table 1)
Hyperglycaemia Blood glucose
>13.9 mmol/L (>250 mg/dL)
• Withhold until elevated blood
glucose has improved to
≤13.9 mmol/L (≤250 mg/dL)
• Resume treatment at the same
dose level
Pneumonitis/
interstitial lung
disease (ILD)
Grade 2• Withhold until Grade ≤1, then
resume at the same dose or
consider dose reduction by one
dose level (see Table 1).
Grade ≥3 Permanently discontinue.
Peripheral
neuropathy
Grade 2• Withhold until Grade ≤1
• For first occurrence, resume
treatment at the same dose level
• For a recurrence, withhold until
Grade ≤1 then, resume
treatment reduced by one dose
level (see Table 1)
Grade ≥3 Permanently discontinue.

* Toxicity was graded per National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version 5.0 (NCI-CTCAE v5.0) where Grade 1 is mild, Grade 2 is moderate, Grade 3 is severe and Grade 4 is life-threatening.

Dosage considerations

The recommended dose must be administered by intravenous infusion over 30 minutes. Enfortumab vedotin must not be administered as an intravenous push or bolus injection.

Active ingredient

Enfortumab vedotin

Enfortumab vedotin is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) targeting Nectin-4, an adhesion protein located on the surface of the urothelial cancer cells. It is comprised of a fully human IgG1-kappa antibody conjugated to the microtubule-disrupting agent MMAE via a protease-cleavable maleimidocaproyl valine-citrulline linker. Nonclinical data suggest that the anticancer activity of enfortumab vedotin is due to the binding of the ADC to Nectin-4-expressing cells, followed by internalisation of the ADC-Nectin-4 complex, and the release of MMAE via proteolytic cleavage.

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