Peer-Reviewed Publication
Eur Urol2026September 24, 2026Journal Article

Pretreatment Tumor NECTIN4 RNA Expression Is Associated with First-line Enfortumab Vedotin Plus Pembrolizumab Efficacy in Metastatic Urothelial Cancer.

Byuri Angela Cho1, Curtis J Perry2, Seong-Keun Yoo3, Jacob Mercer4, Christina Thai4, Guru Sonpavde5, Paul A Fields4, Alan Tan4, Daniel P Petrylak6, Matthew D Galsky7
1Genomic Medicine Institute, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
2Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
3Samsung Precision Genome Medicine Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
4Tempus AI, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA.
5AdventHealth Cancer Institute and the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
6Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
7Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: matthew.galsky@mssm.edu.

Abstract

Enfortumab vedotin (EV) + pembrolizumab (P; EV + P) is the preferred first-line standard-of-care treatment for metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC), yet predictive biomarkers remain lacking. We retrospectively investigated whether tumor NECTIN4 RNA expression and tumor mutational burden (TMB) are associated with outcomes in a real-world mUC cohort receiving first-line EV + P (N = 322). NECTIN4-hi…

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