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Vinflunine and bladder cancer: present and future indications

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Giuseppina Della Vittoria Scarpati
Department of Radiation Therapy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Francesco Perri
Medical Oncology Unit, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Taranto, Italy.
Matteo Ferro
Urology Division, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
Carla Cavaliere
Medical Oncology Unit, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Taranto, Italy.
Gaetano Facchini
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Uro-Gynaecological Oncology, National Tumor Institute of Naples “G. Pascale”, Naples, Italy.
Michele Caraglia
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
Silvia Zappavigna
silvia.zappa@libero.it
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
Raffaele Addeo
Oncology Unit, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Frattamaggiore (NA), Italy.
Urothelial cancer (UC) frequently affects male sex over the sixth decade of life, and in about 30% of the cases, it is diagnosed as muscle-invasive disease. For patients with metastatic disease, the prognosis is grim and the typical treatment is polychemotherapy involving cisplatin. Secondline chemotherapy is often employed, but a standard scheme does not exist. Vinflunine (VFL) is a new generation vinca alkaloid able to reversibly link the subunits of tubulin, causing the arrest of mitotic spindle polymerization. In critical trials, VFL has shown good activity and manageable toxicity; in a phase III randomized trial, it significantly improved survival compared with the best supportive care (BSC). VFL has received European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval for use as second-line treatment in UC patients who progressed after a first-line cisplatin-containing chemotherapy. Due to its low toxicity and promising efficacy, VFL is under clinical experimentations aimed to assess its role in other disease settings.

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Silvia Zappavigna, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology, Second University of Naples, Naples

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Della Vittoria Scarpati, G., Perri, F., Ferro, M., Cavaliere, C., Facchini, G., Caraglia, M., Zappavigna, S., & Addeo, R. (2017). Vinflunine and bladder cancer: present and future indications. Translational Medicine Reports, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/tmr.6397
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