A randomised clinical trial investigating the effect of pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy in patients with advanced urothelial cancer that recurred or progressed after platinum-based chemotherapy
Studied treatment | pembrolizumab |
Control treatment | investigator's choice of chemotherapy with paclitaxel, docetaxel, or vinflunine |
Patients | patients with advanced urothelial cancer that recurred or progressed after platinum-based chemotherapy |
Group sizes | 270 / 272 |
Blindness | open-label | Inclusion period | |
Follow-up duration | Centers | ||
Lost to FU | geographical localisation | ||
Primary endpoint | OS | Design | Parallel groups |
Hypothese | Superiority |
Bellmunt J, de Wit R, Vaughn DJ, Fradet Y, Lee JL, Fong L, Vogelzang NJ, Climent MA, Petrylak DP, Choueiri TK, Necchi A, Gerritsen W, Gurney H, Quinn DI, Culine S, Sternberg CN, Mai Y, Poehlein CH, Perini RF, Bajorin DF Pembrolizumab as Second-Line Therapy for Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma. N Engl J Med 2017 Feb 17;: [PMID: 28212060] link to pdf add to Mendeley
ClinicalTrial.gov record NCT02256436
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