A Phase 2 interventional study of Enfortumab vedotin and Pembrolizumab in Muscle-invasive Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma, sponsored by University of Utah. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-16.
Sponsored by University of Utah · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether Enfortumab Vedotin in combination with Pembrolizumab can achieve a clinical response that preserves the bladder and avoids the need for cystectomy or radiation therapy in patients with urothelial cancer.
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Disease criteria:
Adequate organ function as defined as:
Hematologic:
Hepatic:
Total ≤ 1.5x institutional (ULN), ≤3× ULN for subjects with suspected Gilbert's syndrome with direct bilirubin ≤ ULN.
----(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤ 3 × institutional ULN
Renal:
Participants must adhere to the following sex and /barrier requirements:
\< 50 years of age:
Luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone levels in the post-menopausal range for the institution
--≥ 50 years of age:
The discussion regarding the choice of standard therapy offered, if available, and patient's choice to decline standard therapy should be documented clearly in the research chart.
Exclusion Criteria:
Current evidence of uncontrolled, significant intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, the following conditions:
Cardiovascular disorders:
Known infection with a detectable viral load within 6 months of the anticipated start of treatment.
--Note: Participants on effective antiretroviral therapy with an undetectable viral load within 6 months of the anticipated start of treatment are eligible for this trial.
Note: Participants with a past or resolved HBV infection (defined as the presence of hepatitis B core antibody [anti-HBc] and absence of HBsAg) are eligible. Participants positive for hepatitis C (HCV) antibody are eligible only if polymerase chain reaction is negative for HCV RNA.
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Histologically or cytologically confirmed
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Postmenopausal
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HbA1c
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Immunosuppression
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
TIA (transient ischaemic attack)
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CTCAE grade
The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
All patients will be treated with enfortumab vedotin in combination with pembrolizumab.
Drug: Enfortumab vedotin · Drug: Pembrolizumab
Enfortumab vedotin 1.25 mg/kg, IV on days 1 and 8 on a 21day cycle for 9 cycles
Subjects will receive one year of treatment with pembrolizumab IV or pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa-pmph (Keytruda Qlex) SC. Treatment will be administered per institutional standards every 3 weeks or 6 weeks, at the physician's discretion.
cT0 or cTa low-grade disease as assessed by cystoscopy and bladder biopsy, including all visually abnormal sites in addition to reTURBT or biopsy of the known site of MIBC before neo- adjuvant therapy
To assess the proportion of patients who have achieved a clinical complete response and have maintained bladder preservation without undergoing definitive treatment of cystectomy or radiation after 4 cycles of study treatment.
Time frame: 6 years
Negative tumor-informed ctDNA
To assess the proportion of patients who have achieved a clinical complete response and have maintained bladder preservation without undergoing definitive treatment of cystectomy or radiation after 4 cycles of study treatment.
Time frame: 6 years
The absence of malignant cells on urine cytology
To assess the proportion of patients who have achieved a clinical complete response and have maintained bladder preservation without undergoing definitive treatment of cystectomy or radiation after 4 cycles of study treatment.
Time frame: 6 years
No definitive evidence of new local or metastatic disease at cross-sectional imaging per investigator judgement
To assess the proportion of patients who have achieved a clinical complete response and have maintained bladder preservation without undergoing definitive treatment of cystectomy or radiation after 4 cycles of study treatment.
Time frame: 6 years
The frequency of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) characterized by type.
To assess the safety and tolerability of enfortumab vedotin in combination with pembrolizumab in the study population.
Time frame: 6 years
The frequency of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) characterized by severity (as defined by the NIH CTCAE, version 6.0).
To assess the safety and tolerability of enfortumab vedotin in combination with pembrolizumab in the study population.
Time frame: 6 years
The frequency of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) characterized by seriousness.
To assess the safety and tolerability of enfortumab vedotin in combination with pembrolizumab in the study population.
Time frame: 6 years
The frequency of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) characterized by duration.
To assess the safety and tolerability of enfortumab vedotin in combination with pembrolizumab in the study population.
Time frame: 6 years
The frequency of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) characterized by their relationship to the study treatment.
To assess the safety and tolerability of enfortumab vedotin in combination with pembrolizumab in the study population.
Time frame: 6 years
Residual or recurrent MIBC, as assessed by biopsy
To assess bladder intact event-free survival (EFS), defined as the time from treatment initiation to the first occurrence of any of the following events: 1. residual or recurrent MIBC, as assessed by biopsy; 2. local or distant disease (N1, N2, N3 or M1) disease as confirmed histologically or as assessed by imaging if biopsy is not feasible due to safety concerns; 3. cystectomy or radiation to bladder; 4. death from any cause
Time frame: 6 years
Local or distant disease (N1, N2, N3 or M1) disease as confirmed histologically or as assessed by imaging if biopsy is not feasible due to safety concerns.
To assess bladder intact event-free survival (EFS), defined as the time from treatment initiation to the first occurrence of any of the following events: 1. residual or recurrent MIBC, as assessed by biopsy; 2. local or distant disease (N1, N2, N3 or M1) disease as confirmed histologically or as assessed by imaging if biopsy is not feasible due to safety concerns; 3. cystectomy or radiation to bladder; 4. death from any cause
Time frame: 6 years
Cystectomy or radiation to bladder
To assess bladder intact event-free survival (EFS), defined as the time from treatment initiation to the first occurrence of any of the following events: 1. residual or recurrent MIBC, as assessed by biopsy; 2. local or distant disease (N1, N2, N3 or M1) disease as confirmed histologically or as assessed by imaging if biopsy is not feasible due to safety concerns; 3. cystectomy or radiation to bladder; 4. death from any cause
Time frame: 6 years
Death from any cause
To assess bladder intact event-free survival (EFS), defined as the time from treatment initiation to the first occurrence of any of the following events: 1. residual or recurrent MIBC, as assessed by biopsy; 2. local or distant disease (N1, N2, N3 or M1) disease as confirmed histologically or as assessed by imaging if biopsy is not feasible due to safety concerns; 3. cystectomy or radiation to bladder; 4. death from any cause
Time frame: 6 years
The time to NMIBC defined as the time from treatment initiation to the first occurrence of NMIBC (cTa, cT1, or carcinoma in situ) as assessed by biopsy.
To assess time to non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) defined as the time from treatment initiation to the first occurrence of NMIBC (cTa, cT1, or carcinoma in situ) as assessed by biopsy.
Time frame: 6 years
Local or distant disease (N1, N2, N3 or M1) disease as confirmed histologically or as assessed by imaging if biopsy is not feasible due to safety concerns.
To assess distant disease-free survival (DDFS) defined as the time from treatment initiation to the first occurrence of any of the following events: 1. local or distant disease (N1, N2, N3 or M1) disease as confirmed histologically or as assessed by imaging if biopsy is not feasible due to safety concerns; 2. death from any cause
Time frame: 6 years
Death from any cause
To assess distant disease-free survival (DDFS) defined as the time from treatment initiation to the first occurrence of any of the following events: 1. local or distant disease (N1, N2, N3 or M1) disease as confirmed histologically or as assessed by imaging if biopsy is not feasible due to safety concerns; 2. death from any cause
Time frame: 6 years
Overall survival (OS) as defined as the time from initiation of treatment until death from any cause.
To assess overall survival in this study population.
Time frame: 6 years
Start is estimated for Nov 2026; primary completion for Nov 2034, 96 months later.
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Enfortumab vedotin · Pembrolizumab