Current Therapy for Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma.

Hematol Oncol Clin North Am

Department of Medical Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, KS 118, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address:

Published: June 2021

Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is a highly lethal malignancy in the metastatic state. Platinum-based chemotherapy regimens have been the backbone treatment for patients with advanced UC in the first-line setting. However, a large subset of patients are suboptimal candidates for these combinations owing to poor renal function and/or other comorbidities. Patients who are unable to tolerate or who progress after frontline platinum chemotherapy face a poor outcome. Recent insights into UC biology and immunology are being translated into new therapies for metastatic UC (mUC) including immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), erdafitinib, a FGFR inhibitor, and antibody drug conjugates (ADC) such enfortumab vedotin.

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