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. 2020 Sep 16;9:F1000 Faculty Rev-1146. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.26841.1

Table 3. Selected trials in muscle-invasive bladder cancer with available results.

Trial Phase Inclusion criteria Experimental
arm(s)
Patients
treated
Patients
undergoing RC
pCR,
percentage
<pT2,
percentage
Median
follow-up,
months
One-year
RFS,
percentage
Status
PURE-01
NCT02736266
II cT2-3bN0M0 MIBC,
plan for RC, any
cisplatin eligibility
Neoadjuvant
pembrolizumab
50 50 42 54 Results
published
ABACUS
NCT02662309
II cT2-4aN0M0 MIBC,
plan for RC, cisplatin-
ineligible or refuses
Neoadjuvant
atezolizumab
95 88 31 13.1 79% Results
published
BLASST-1
NCT03294304
II cT2-4aN0-1M0 MIBC,
plan for RC, cisplatin-
eligible
Neoadjuvant
nivolumab +
gem/cis
41 41 49 66 Results
presented
HCRN GU14-188
NCT02365766
Ib/II Cohort 1: cT2-4aN0M0
MIBC, plan for RC,
cisplatin-eligible
Cohort 2: cT2-4aN0M0
MIBC, plan for RC,
cisplatin-ineligible
Cohort 1:
neoadjuvant
pembrolizumab
+ gem/cis
Cohort 2:
neoadjuvant
pembrolizumab
+ gemcitabine
40 36 44.4 60 14 80% Cohort 1:
results
presented
Cohort 2:
completed
accrual

cTNM, clinical tumor node metastasis stage; gem/cis, gemcitabine + cisplatin; MIBC, muscle-invasive bladder cancer; pCR, pathologic complete response; <pT2, downstaging to non-muscle-invasive disease; RC, radical cystectomy; RFS, relapse-free survival.