Key blad­der can­cer da­ta pave way for Seat­tle Ge­net­ics to sub­mit mar­ket­ing ap­pli­ca­tion for armed an­ti­body

Seat­tle Ge­net­ics is one step clos­er to get­ting its sec­ond armed an­ti­body across the fin­ish line, af­ter the ‘break­through’ Astel­las-part­nered drug — en­for­tum­ab ve­dotin — helped pa­tients with ad­vanced or metasta­t­ic urothe­lial can­cer, whose dis­ease pro­gressed de­spite treat­ment with both plat­inum-con­tain­ing chemother­a­py and a check­point in­hibitor, in a key study.

The drug in­duced a 44% ob­jec­tive re­sponse rate (ORR) in 128 pa­tients — and al­though de­tailed re­sults from the sin­gle-arm EV-201 study will be re­vealed at a lat­er date, the da­ta are com­pelling enough for Seat­tle to sub­mit a US mar­ket­ing ap­pli­ca­tion for the an­ti­body drug con­ju­gate (ADC), the com­pa­ny said on Thurs­day. A late-stage tri­al de­signed to con­firm the drug’s safe­ty and ef­fi­ca­cy in this pa­tient pop­u­la­tion is on­go­ing.

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