NCT07475806RecruitingPhase 2
A Study to Find Out if Enfortumab Vedotin Given With Pembrolizumab Helps People With Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Keep Their Bladder
An Open-label, Single-Arm, Phase 2 Study to Evaluate Enfortumab Vedotin Plus Pembrolizumab for Bladder Preservation in Participants With Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (EV-209)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 2 Nov 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
People with a type of bladder cancer called muscle-invasive bladder cancer have cancer that has spread into the muscle wall of the bladder. The standard treatment is to have chemotherapy, followed by surgery to completely remove the bladder. This has a significant impact on people with long-term life-altering changes. There are also limited options for people who cannot have chemotherapy or who do not want their bladder removed. Studies show that enfortumab vedotin, when given with pembrolizumab, can help people with advanced bladder cancer. This treatment has also worked well for people with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who can't receive chemotherapy when it was given before and after bladder-removal surgery. However, some people can't have or won't have this surgery. There is still a need for new treatments that let people keep their bladder. This is especially important for people who respond well to the enfortumab vedotin, when given with pembrolizumab, and may benefit from continuing this study treatment instead of having surgery. The main aims of this study are to check how many people continue to respond well to enfortumab vedotin with pembrolizumab and how many people have their bladder intact after 2 years. People in this study will be adults who have muscle-invasive bladder cancer and are able to have surgery to remove the bladder. People cannot take part if they have nerve damage (sensory or motor neuropathy), have had certain other cancers, have diabetes that is not under control, or have had a transplant. People will receive infusions of enfortumab vedotin on the 1st and 8th day of 3-week (21-day) cycles. They will also receive pembrolizumab on the 1st day of every 3-week cycle. There will be safety checks at each visit with checks of the tumors at some visits. The doctors will continue to check for medical problems throughout the study. People will continue to receive study treatment unless their cancer doesn't improve after 9 cycles of study treatment, or until their cancer gets worse, they can't tolerate the study treatment, they start other cancer treatment, they or the doctor decides the person should stop receiving study treatment, or sadly they pass away. People's whose cancer gets worse or doesn't improve after 9 cycles may need bladder surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy. People will visit the clinic after they stop their study treatment, in which they will be asked about any medical problems and have a health check. After this, people will continue to have scans every 12 weeks (3 months) for the first 2 years until their cancer gets worse. After this, if their cancer doesn't get worse, they will continue to have scans every 24 weeks (6 months) for up to 5 years to check for any changes in their cancer. After people's cancer gets worse, they won't have any more scans but will have telephone health checks every 3 months.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 240 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 13 Mar 2026
- Start date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Primary completion date
- 30 Nov 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc.
- Diseases
- Bladder cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07475806
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Planned participants: 240
- From 12 Mar 2026 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2027
- 68 sites in 12 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Participant has a second malignancy diagnosed within 3 years before first dose of study intervention, or any evidence of residual disease from a previously diagnosed malignancy. Participant with non-melanoma skin cancer, localized prostate cancer treated with curative intent with no evidence of progression, low-risk or very low-risk (per standard guidelines) localized prostate cancer under active surveillance/watchful waiting without intent to treat, or carcinoma in situ of any type (if complete resection was performed) are allowed.
- Participant has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior the first dose of study intervention. Inhaled or topical steroids are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease. Physiologic replacement doses of corticosteroids are permitted for participants with adrenal insufficiency.
- Participant has received prior therapy with an anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), or anti-programmed death-ligand 2 agent or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or coinhibitory T-cell receptor (e.g., CTLA-4, OX-40, CD137).
- Participant has received prior systemic anti-cancer therapy for MIBC/non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), or received prior systemic anti-cancer therapy including investigational agents (including enfortumab vedotin or other monomethyl auristatin E-based antibody-drug conjugates) within 3 years prior to screening.
- NOTE: Prior treatment for NMIBC with intravesical instillation therapy such as Bacillus Calmette-Guérin or intravesical chemotherapy is permitted. Prior systemic treatment (including, but not limited to, anti-PD-1/PD-L1 treatment with pembrolizumab, etc.) received for NMIBC is not permitted.
- Participant has received a partial cystectomy of the bladder to remove any NMIBC or MIBC.
- Participant has received any prior radiotherapy to the bladder.
Other illness
- Participant has ≥ N2 disease or metastatic disease (M1) as identified by imaging
- Participant has known active keratitis or corneal ulcerations. Participant with superficial punctate keratitis is allowed if the disorder is being adequately treated.
- Participant has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease (ILD) that required steroids or has current pneumonitis/ILD.
- Participant has a history of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, organizing pneumonia, drug-induced pneumonitis, idiopathic pneumonitis, or evidence of active pneumonitis on screening chest computed tomography (CT) scan.
- Participant has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs).
- Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is not considered a form of systemic treatment and is allowed.
- Brief (\< 7 days) use of systemic corticosteroids is allowed when use is considered standard of care.
- Participant with vitiligo, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, or resolved childhood asthma/atopy will not be excluded.
- Participant requiring intermittent use of bronchodilators, inhaled steroids, or local steroid injections will not be excluded.
- Participant with hypothyroidism that is stable with hormone replacement therapy or Sjögren's syndrome will not be excluded.
Lab values
- Participant has a history of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus within 3 months prior to screening. Uncontrolled diabetes (within 3 months before first dose) is defined as hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) ≥ 8% or HbA1c between 7% and \< 8% with associated diabetes symptoms (polyuria or polydipsia) that are not otherwise explained. The lowest HbA1c during the screening period will be used to determine eligibility.
Other
- Participant has preexisting sensory or motor neuropathy Grade ≥ 2.
Who the study is looking for
- Participant has histologically-confirmed MIBC, stage cT2-T4aN0M0 or T1-T4aN1M0. NOTE: urothelial carcinomas (UCs) not originating from the bladder (e.g., upper tract \[ureters, renal pelvis\], urethra) are not eligible. UCs invading into the prostatic stroma with no histologic muscle invasion is allowed, provided that the extent of disease is confirmed via imaging.
- Participant has predominant UC histology (≥ 50%). NOTE: Participants with mixed histology are eligible provided the urothelial component is ≥ 50% (participants whose tumors contain predominant \[≥ 50%\] plasmacytoid variant are not eligible). Participants whose tumors contain any neuroendocrine histology are not eligible.
- Participant is deemed eligible for radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection.
- Participant has accessible archival tumor tissue from the primary tumor, for which source and availability have been confirmed prior to study intervention. If no archival tumor tissue is available, the participant will have a biopsy to obtain tumor tissue prior to study intervention.
- Participant has Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2.
- Have a transurethral resection of a bladder tumor within 60 days (+14 days) prior to, or during screening (from the date of informed consent form signature).
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (68)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site AU61002 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New South Wales | Australia | Recruiting |
| Site AU61005 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Southport | Australia | Recruiting |
| Site US10003 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Recruiting |
| Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Beijing | China | Recruiting |
| Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chengdu | China | Recruiting |
| Langfang Campus, Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Science Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Langfang | China | Recruiting |
| Sichuan Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shanghai | China | Recruiting |
| Site DE49009 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herne | Germany | Recruiting |
| Site ES34011 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Granada | Spain | Recruiting |
| Site ES34002 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ourense | Spain | Recruiting |
| Site ES34005 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pamplona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Site FR33004 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cedex Lyon 08 | France | Recruiting |
| Site FR33002 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Recruiting |
| Site FR33013 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rennes | France | Recruiting |
| Site FR33012 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Strasbourg | France | Recruiting |
| Site FR33009 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Strasbourg | France | Recruiting |
| Site FR33011 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Suresnes | France | Recruiting |
| Site FR33003 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toulouse | France | Recruiting |
| Site FR33010 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Villejuif | France | Recruiting |
| Site UK44003 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Colchester | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Site GB44005 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Site UK44004 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Site UK44001 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Plymouth | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Site IT39013 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bari | Italy | Recruiting |
| Site IT39005 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Foggia | Italy | Recruiting |
| Site IT39009 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Meldola | Italy | Recruiting |
| Site IT39017 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Recruiting |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital Organization-Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bunkyo-ku | Japan | Recruiting |
| Institute of Science Tokyo Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bunkyo-ku | Japan | Recruiting |
| Gifu University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gifu | Japan | Recruiting |
| St. Marianna University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kawasaki | Japan | Recruiting |
| Kobe City Hospital Organization Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kobe | Japan | Recruiting |
| The Cancer Institute Hospital-Japanese Foundation for Cancer Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Koto-ku | Japan | Recruiting |
| Kyoto University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kyoto | Japan | Recruiting |
| Osaka Metropolitan University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Osaka | Japan | Recruiting |
| University of Tsukuba Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tsukuba | Japan | Recruiting |
| Yamaguchi University Hospital - Center For Clinical Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ube | Japan | Recruiting |
| Site KR82007 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gyeonggi-do | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Site KR82004 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hwasun | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Site KR82002 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seongnam-si | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Site KR82010 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Site KR82001 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Site KR82008 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Site KR82003 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Site KR82005 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Site PL48005 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lodz | Poland | Recruiting |
| Site PL48007 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Opole | Poland | Recruiting |
| Site PL48008 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Poznan | Poland | Recruiting |
| Site PL48006 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Przemyśl | Poland | Recruiting |
| Centers for Advanced Urology, LLP Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bala-Cynwyd | United States | Recruiting |
| Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCCC) Cherry Hill Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cherry Hill | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine - UIC Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Recruiting |
| Karmanos Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Detroit | United States | Recruiting |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
| Indiana University School of Medicine - Simon Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Indianapolis | United States | Recruiting |
| Accellacare of Duly Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lisle | United States | Recruiting |
| Arkansas Urology Associates Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Little Rock | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madison | United States | Recruiting |
| Carolina Urologic Research Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Myrtle Beach | United States | Recruiting |
| NYU Langone Urology Associates Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| Thomas Jefferson University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Recruiting |
| Urology Austin, PLLC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Round Rock | United States | Recruiting |
| Profound Research LLC at Michigan Hematology and Oncology Consultants Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Royal Oak | United States | Recruiting |
| Urology San Antonio Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Antonio | United States | Recruiting |
| Stanford University School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stanford | United States | Recruiting |
| Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCC) Washington Township Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington Township | United States | Recruiting |
| The University of Kansas Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Westwood | United States | Recruiting |
| Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer - Asplundh Cancer Pavilion Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Willow Grove | United States | Recruiting |
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