Metastatic Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma

This is a single-arm, Phase 2 clinical trial (PERSEUS TRIAL / LACOG 1924) evaluating the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of sacituzumab tirumotecan (sac-TMT; MK-2870) as a second-line treatment for patients with advanced or metastatic penile cancer. Penile squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC) is a rare and aggressive cancer with limited treatment options once disease progression occurs after initial platinum-based chemotherapy. Sacituzumab tirumotecan is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) designed to target TROP-2, a protein frequently expressed at high levels on penile cancer cells. By binding to TROP-2, sac-TMT delivers a anti-cancer payload directly to the tumor cells. All participants in this trial will receive sacituzumab tirumotecan administered via intravenous (IV) infusion every 2 weeks. The main goal of this study is to determine the percentage of patients whose tumors shrink or disappear after receiving sacituzumab tirumotecan (Objective Response Rate).

This is a collaborative, multicenter, open-label, Phase 2 clinical trial (APOLO TRIAL / LACOG 2425) designed to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of subcutaneous amivantamab monotherapy in adult patients with histologically confirmed recurrent or metastatic penile squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC). Eligible participants must have experienced disease progression on or after receiving at least one platinum-based chemotherapy regimen (with or without immunotherapy). The study allocates participants into two parallel non-randomized cohorts based on their human papillomavirus (HPV) status (HPV-positive and HPV-negative).

This phase II trial tests how well enfortumab vedotin works for treating patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis that has spread to other places in the body (metastatic) or cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable). Enfortumab vedotin is a monoclonal antibody, enfortumab, linked to an anticancer drug called vedotin. It works by helping the immune system to slow or stop the growth of tumor cells. Enfortumab attaches to a protein called nectin-4 on tumor cells in a targeted way and delivers vedotin to kill them.