Virtual Meetings 2021

Meet The Professor: Optimizing the Selection and Sequencing of Therapy for Patients with Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma

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PARTICIPATING FACULTY

Andrea Apolo, MD
Genitourinary Medical Oncologist
Specialist, Bladder Cancer Research
Bethesda, Maryland

Shilpa Gupta, MD
Associate Professor
Director, Genitourinary
Oncology Program
Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Jonathan E Rosenberg, MD
Chief, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Service
Division of Solid Tumor Oncology
Enno W Ercklentz Chair
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York



Guru Sonpavde, MD
Bladder Cancer Director
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Additional faculty to be announced.

SERIES MODERATOR
Neil Love, MD
Research To Practice

Agenda

Each 1-hour session will be divided into topic modules focused on current management, emerging research and novel agents and strategies under active investigation for urothelial bladder carcinoma. Each event will employ an identical format that will include the following elements:

  • Moderator Dr Neil Love and a featured participating clinical investigator
  • Discussion of participating faculty treatment recommendations
  • Review of available clinical research findings
  • Community oncologist video case presentations
  • Interactive audience polling and extensive Q&A

Topics to Be Discussed

  • Immunotherapy for patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive urothelial bladder carcinoma (UBC) that is unresponsive or refractory to BCG therapy
  • Adjuvant nivolumab for patients with UBC who are at high risk of recurrence after radical resection
  • First-line and maintenance immunotherapy-containing approaches
  • Targeted treatments after disease progression: erdafitinib, enfortumab vedotin and sacituzumab govitecan

Target Audience
This program is intended for medical oncologists, hematologists, hematology-oncology fellows and other allied healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of urothelial bladder carcinoma.

Learning Objectives

  • Consider the recent FDA approval of pembrolizumab for high-risk non-muscle-invasive urothelial bladder cancer (UBC) that is unresponsive to BCG, and determine how this agent can be appropriately integrated into patient care.
  • Appraise the recent FDA approval of nivolumab as adjuvant treatment for patients with urothelial carcinoma who are at high risk of recurrence after undergoing radical resection.
  • Evaluate available data and ongoing studies investigating the use of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies as neoadjuvant therapy, and consider the current and potential role of this strategy.
  • Identify patients with previously untreated metastatic UBC appropriate for consideration of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy.
  • Review published clinical trial data leading to the FDA approval of the anti-PD-L1 antibody avelumab as maintenance therapy after response to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy for patients with metastatic UBC, and incorporate this novel approach into management algorithms.
  • Recognize the FDA approval of erdafitinib for patients with advanced UBC and susceptible FGFR3 or FGFR2 genetic alterations whose disease has progressed during or after at least 1 line of platinum-containing chemotherapy, and determine how this agent may be appropriately integrated into clinical practice.
  • Recall pivotal clinical trial findings with enfortumab vedotin for previously treated locally advanced or metastatic UBC, and identify patients for whom treatment with this novel compound would be appropriate.
  • Consider how sacituzumab govitecan may be incorporated into the treatment algorithm on the basis of its recent FDA approval for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who previously received a platinum-containing chemotherapy and an anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibody.
  • Appraise available research data and ongoing clinical trials evaluating anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies in combination with targeted agents or other immunotherapeutic strategies for metastatic UBC, and counsel appropriately selected patients about participation in active research protocols.

CME Credit Form
CME and ABIM MOC credit form links will be emailed to each participant within 5 business days of the activity.

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Credit Designation Statement
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American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) — Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
Successful completion of each CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component and a short post-test, enables the participant to earn up to 1 Medical Knowledge MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Please note, this program has been specifically designed for the following ABIM specialty: medical oncology.

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FACULTYDr Apolo has no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose. The following faculty reported relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities:

Dr RosenbergConsulting Agreements: Astellas, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, EMD Serono Inc, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Gilead Sciences Inc, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Biotech Inc, Loxo Oncology Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Company, Merck, Mirati Therapeutics, Pfizer Inc, QED Therapeutics, Seagen Inc, Tyra Biosciences; Contracted Research: Astellas, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, QED Therapeutics, Seagen Inc; Data and Safety Board: Almac Sciences; Honoraria: EMD Serono Inc.

SURVEY PARTICIPANTDr GuptaAdvisory Committee: Aveo Pharmaceuticals, EMD Serono Inc, Gilead Sciences Inc, Lilly, Pfizer Inc; Consulting Agreements: Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, EMD Serono Inc, Gilead Sciences Inc, Janssen Biotech Inc, Lilly, Pfizer Inc; Ownership Interest: Nektar; Speakers Bureau: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Gilead Sciences Inc, Janssen Biotech Inc, Seagen Inc.

SERIES MODERATOR — Dr Love is president and CEO of Research To Practice. Research To Practice receives funds in the form of educational grants to develop CME activities from the following companies: AbbVie Inc, Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation, ADC Therapeutics, Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Amgen Inc, Array BioPharma Inc, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc, Astellas, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, BeiGene Ltd, BeyondSpring Pharmaceuticals Inc, Blueprint Medicines, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Celgene Corporation, Clovis Oncology, Coherus BioSciences, Daiichi Sankyo Inc, Eisai Inc, Epizyme Inc, Exact Sciences Inc, Exelixis Inc, Five Prime Therapeutics Inc, Foundation Medicine, G1 Therapeutics Inc, Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Genmab, Gilead Sciences Inc, GlaxoSmithKline, Grail Inc, Halozyme Inc, Helsinn Healthcare SA, ImmunoGen Inc, Incyte Corporation, Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc, Janssen Biotech Inc, administered by Janssen Scientific Affairs LLC, Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Kite, A Gilead Company, Lilly, Loxo Oncology Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Company, Merck, Natera Inc, Novartis, Novocure Inc, Oncopeptides, Pfizer Inc, Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company, Puma Biotechnology Inc, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, Sanofi Genzyme, Seagen Inc, Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Oncology Inc, Taiho Oncology Inc, Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc, Tesaro, A GSK Company, TG Therapeutics Inc, Turning Point Therapeutics Inc, Verastem Inc and Zymeworks Inc.

RESEARCH TO PRACTICE CME PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS, STAFF AND REVIEWERS — Planners, scientific staff and independent reviewers for Research To Practice have no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose.

Supporter
This activity is supported by an educational grant from Astellas and Seagen Inc.