(UroToday.com) Advanced urothelial carcinoma has among the worst prognosis for tumors treated by genitourinary oncologists. Standard of care dictates that patients receive platinum-based induction chemotherapy. However, even with this treatment, rates of recurrence and disease progression are high and overall survival is quite short due to the development of chemotherapy resistance. In the JAVELIN Bladder 100 study which was reported at ASCO 2020 Annual Meeting, the addition of avelumab, a PD-L1 directed therapy, as first-line maintenance to best supportive care demonstrated improvements in overall survival for patients who did not have disease progression during their initial cytotoxic chemotherapy induction.

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