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Investor Presentation Aug 29, 2016

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UPDATE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF BLADDER CANCER: KOL BREAKFAST

LE PARKER MERIDIEN NEW YORK

Thursday 25th August

Kjetil Hestdal, MD, President & CEO Erik Dahl, CFO Ambaw Bellete, President & Head of US Cancer Commercial Operations

AGENDA

  • Welcome by Kjetil Hestdal, President & CEO, Photocure ASA
  • Cancer of the Urinary Bladder
  • Dr. Gary Steinberg; Bruce & Beth White Family Professor of Surgery & Vice Chairman of Urology & Director Urologic Oncology, University of Chicago
  • Genomic Landscape of Bladder Cancer
  • Dr. Yair Lotan; Professor, Chief Urologic Oncology, Holder of the Helen J. & Robert Strauss Professorship, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Risk Stratification and Guidelines for Management of NMIBC
  • Dr. James McKiernan; John K. Lattimer Professor & Chairman Dept. of Urology, College of Surgeons & Urologist-in-Chief at NY Presbyterian Columbia Hospital & Vice Chair, AUA Guidelines Committee
  • Company Update by Kjetil Hestdal
  • Q&A Session

DR. GARY STEINBERG

BRUCE & BETH WHITE FAMILY PROFESSOR OF SURGERY & VICE CHAIRMAN OF UROLOGY & DIRECTOR UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Cancer of the Urinary Bladder

Dr. Gary D. Steinberg

Director of Urologic Oncology

Vice Chairman Section of Urology

Bladder Cancer Natural History & Etiologic Factors

Bladder Cancer Epidemiology (US 2016)

  • 76,960 new cases
  • 16,390 deaths
  • Prevalent population > 550,000 patients

Risk Factors for Bladder Cancer

  • Cigarettes
  • Occupation: dyes, rubber, textile, diesel, exhaust
  • ‒ Aromatic amines
  • ‒ Nitrates / Nitrosoamines
  • Chronic cystitis
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Radiation therapy

Lifetime risk of developing bladder cancer:1

  • 1 in 26 men
  • 1 in 84 women

1.American Cancer Society. Bladder Cancer. 2016

Increased Risk of Bladder Cancer Among Smokers and Ex-Smokers

  • Smoking is one of the most important risk factors associated with bladder cancer
  • Prevention of cigarette smoking would result in 50% fewer men and 23% fewer women with bladder cancer
  • Current cigarette smokers have approximately 3-fold greater risk of bladder cancer than nonsmokers
  • Successfully quitting smoking before 50 years of age reduces the risk by about 50% after 15 years

Zeegers et al. World J Urol. 2004;21:392-401; Urology channel. http://www.urologychannel.com/bladdercancer/index.shtml. Accessed September 20, 2007 Surgeon General's Report 2004

Unmet Medical Needs

Bladder cancer is associated with a high risk of:

  • Recurrence:2
  • Up to 61% at 1 year
  • Up to 78% at 5 years for NMIBC
  • Progression to muscle-invasive disease:2
  • Up to 17% at 1 year
  • Up to 45% at 5 years
  • Common in patients with CIS, which are often difficult to detect3

High rate of residual tumor after TURBT:

• 34%–76% of patients have evidence of tumor on repeat TURBT at 2–6 weeks4-6

Patients with incomplete initial resection are at high risk of recurrence5

  • Continued growth of microscopic lesions which were not observed at initial TURBT7
  • New growth of small residual traces of tumor, often at surgical margins8

Direct medical costs of cancer care (US)

  • Estimated at \$125 billion in 2010
  • Expected to rise to \$155 billion in 2020**

2 S.ylvester RJ et al. Eur Urol 2006; 49: 466-467. 3. Babjuk M et al. Eur Urol 2011; 59: 997-1008. 4. Herr HW. J Urol 1999; 162: 74-76. 5. Divrik RT et al. J Urol 2006; 175: 1641-16

6.Adiyat KT et al. Urology 2010; 75: 365-369 7. Jocham D et al. J Urol 2005; 174: 862-866.

  1. Brausi Met al. Eur Urol 2002; 41: 523-531.

Bladder Cancer

Diagnosis and Presentation

Bladder Cancer Segmentation

Bladder Cancer Staging

Prevalence of Bladder Cancer Staging at Diagnosis1,2

Stage at Diagnosis % of Patients
Non-muscle
invasive
75%
Ta 60%
T1 30%
Tis 10%
Muscle invasive 20%
Metastatic 5%

1. Sonpavde G. Postgrad Med. 2005;119(3):30-37.

2. Dalbagni G. Nat Clin Pract Urol. 2007;4(5):254-260.

AJCC Cancer Staging Manual 6th Edition; 2002.

NCI 2009 - http://www.cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/bladder/HealthProfessional/page4#Reference4.4. Accesses 21 July, 2009.

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Bladder Cancer

Symptoms, Diagnosis, Surveillance & Follow-up

Complete resection, correct grading and staging is essential for optimal patient management

Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

Standard of Care: Life-long Follow-up9

  1. 2007 Update of the AUA Guideline for the Management of Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer.

Bladder Cancer Surveillance

  • Cystoscopy
  • Sometimes misses High-Grade CIS
    • 28% increased detection rate using Cysview*
    • Unable to detect Upper Tract Disease
  • Urine Cytology
  • Detects High-Grade CIS
  • Frequently misses Low-Grade Papillary Tumors
  • Overall sensitivity 30%, overall Specificity = 95%

*Schmidbauer, et al, PCB301/01 Study Group. "Improved Detection of Urothelial Carcinoma in Situ with Hexaminolevulinate Fluorescence Cystoscopy." The Journal of Urology 171, no. 1 (January 2004)

Urine Cytology

Combining Morphology with DNA Technology: Molecular Cytology

Cytology Molecular Cytology

Rationale for Early Detection

• Good cure rates for non-muscle invasive disease

• Treatment of early tumors is relatively less complicated but high cost due to number of diagnostic procedures

• Opportunity exists to detect tumors destined to invade muscle before they actually do so

Office Cystoscopy

• Thorough Endoscopy of Urethra and Bladder

• Local Anesthesia

• Photography of Bladder

• Cytology – to assess for Cancer Cells

Bladder Tumor - Cystoscopy

Blue Light Cystoscopy with Cysview

  • Diagnostic tool to aid detection of bladder tumors
  • Technology
  • Instill a photosensitizing agent into the bladder via a catheter
  • The agent induces preferential intracellular accumulation of photoactive porphyrins (PAPs), mainly protoporphyrin IX (PpIX), in malignant as opposed to non-malignant cells of urothelial origin
  • Under subsequent blue light illumination, neoplastic cells fluoresce enabling visualization of the tumor

Ref: Frampton JE, Plosker GL. Hexyl aminolevulinate in the detection of bladder cancer. Drugs 2006; 66:571-8.

Blue Light Cystoscopy with Cysview Mode 2

TURBT: Diagnostic and Therapeutic

  • Establishes pathologic diagnosis, including grade and stage of disease
  • Also should be viewed as a complete oncologic procedure, especially in low grade non muscle invasive disease
  • Repeat TURBT
    • May upstage from T1 to T2 in up to 40- 50%
    • Residual disease or early recurrence

Bladder Cancer Diagnosis: Challenges and Future Directions

  • Molecular markers: Detection, Risk Stratification, Prediction of Response to Treatment
  • Whole genome sequencing
  • Epigenetics
  • miRNA microarrays

DNA Methylation marker associated with progression and recurrence Comparison of Mutation Frequency in NMIBC vs MIBC

Genes Progression Recurrence Study
APAF1 NA 0.05 Christoph et al. Int J Cancer, 2006
CDH13 0.00 0.01 Lin et al. Int Urol Nephrol, 2012
CDKN 2 A NA 0.05 Lin et al. Urol Oncol. 2010
DAPK1 NA 0.001 Tada et al. Cancer Res. 2002
DAPK1 NA 0.04 Christoph et al. Int J Cancer, 2006
IGFBP3 NA 0.02 Christoph et al. Int J Cancer, 2006
RASSF1A 0.004 NA Kim et al, Clin Genitourin Cancer, 2012
RASSF1A 0.04 NA Catto et al, J Clin Oncol, 2005
RASSF1A, CDH1, APC, TNFSR25, EDNRB 0.05 NA Yates et al, Clin Cancer Res, 2007
RUNX3 0.01 0.02 Kim et al, Cancer Res, 2005
RUNX3 0.006 0.04 Yan et al, J Surg Oncol, 2012
RUNX3 0.013 NA Kim et al, J Urol, 2008
SYMPO 2 0.05 NA Cebrian et al. Cancer Res. 2008
SYMPO 2 0.03 0.01 Alvarez-Mugica et al, J Urol, 2010
TBX2, TBX3, GATA2, ZIC4 0.003 NA Kandimalla et al, Eur Urol, 2012
TBX4 0.05 NA Reinert et al. Clin Cancer Res. 2011
TIMP3 NA 0.036 Friedrich et al, Eur J Cancer, 2005
TIMP3 0.01 NA Hoque et al. JNCI, 2006

Non-Muscle Invasive Disease

• TURBT

• Chemotherapy / Immunotherapy

• Detection / Surveillance

• Watchful Waiting

NMIBC: Evaluation / Treatment

NMIBC: Current Challenges

  • Urinary markers to replace cystoscopy
  • 2nd line therapies for BCG-failure
  • Intravesical
  • When to proceed to cystectomy
  • Biomarkers of disease aggressiveness predicting progression and recurrence
  • NMIBC – 60-80% chance of recurrence at 5 years with surgery alone
  • Exception – first time, solitary, small, TaG1 papillary tumors

Millan-Rodriguez et al. JUrol 2000

BCG: Mechanism of Action

Redelman-Sidi et al. The mechanism of action of BCG therapy for bladder cancer—a current perspective. Nat. Rev. Urol. 11, 153–162 (2014).

Biomarkers to Predict Response to BCG?

•glutathione S-transferase theta 1 (GSTT1)

–Genomic polymorphisms may predict response –GSTT1-positive up to 14-fold higher risk of early BCG failure

•Urinary cytokine panel – CyPRIT

–9 inducible cytokines in urine

–Predict recurrence with 85.5% accuracy

*Kang et al. Urologic Oncology, 2014 * Kamat et al. European Urology, 20161111

Cancer Immunotherapy

Recognition of cancer cells by T cells

Normally -- upregulation of immune checkpoint receptors

• Redelman-Sidi et al. The mechanism of action of BCG therapy for bladder cancer—a current perspective. Nat. Rev. Carosella ED. Eur Urol 68 (2015): 267-279

Cancer Immunotherapy

Tumors can escape response by direct or indirect (APC) inhibition of various immune checkpoint proteins

Therapeutic Targets

Current Clinical Trials

$\epsilon$ an chi chincar than handscape
Trial/Sponsor Drug Target/Design Phase Status
S0337 Gemcitabine Peri-op single dose Ш Completed
NCT00974818 MMC vs. Gem Closed early?
NCT00461591
NCT00598806
Apaziquone Peri-op single dose Ш Closed
RTOG-0926 Chemo/XRT T1 П Open
NCT01732107 Dovitinib (FGFR3) BCG refractory П Closed
Cold Genysis CG 0070 Rep competent ADV GMCSF Ш Open?
NCT02009332 Rapamycin (mTOR) BCG refractory I/II Open
NCT01259063 Everolimus/Gem BCG refractory/CIS I/II Open
NCT02197897 Tamoxifen ER - TaLG marker lesion $\mathbf{I}$ Open
NCT02010203
Heat Biologics
HS 410 (vaccine) $BCG + HS$ 410
(BCG naïve)
I/II Open
Viventia Vicinium High risk I/II Ph II planned
FKD AD-IFN BCG refractory $\mathbf{I}$ Completed
Ph III planned
BioCancell BC 819 (H19/DTA) BCG failure/refractory П Completed
Ph III planned
NCT02015104 PANVAC+BCG vs. BCG BCG failure П Open
Telesta Therapeutics MCNA Failure/Unresponsive Ш Completed
Altor Bioscience ALT-803 (IL15) BCG naïve I/II Completed

Lerner, Seth P., et al. "Summary and Recommendations from the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Trials Planning Meeting on Novel Therapeutics for Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer." Bladder Cancer 2, no. 2.

Lerner, Seth P., et al. "Summary and Recommendations from the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Trials Planning Meeting on Novel Therapeutics for Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer." Bladder Cancer 2, no. 2.

Invasive Bladder Cancer

• Lethal disease if not treated appropriately

• Surgery remains cornerstone therapy

Cystoscopic view of papillary bladder cancer

Muscle Invasive Disease

• Radical Cystectomy

• Lymph Node Dissection

• Chemotherapy

Radical Cystectomy

Treatment of Invasive Bladder Cancer: Bladder Preservation

• TURBT

• Chemotherapy

• Radiation Therapy

Treatment of Invasive Bladder Cancer: Bladder Preservation

TURBT: Transurethral resection of bladder tumor, MCV: Methotrexate, Cisplatin, Vinblastine, XRT: External beam irradiation

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Future Directions: The Cancer Genome Atlas Project

• 2014: First 131 patients sequences

–Somatic mutation, DNA copy number variants, mRNA and microRNA expression, protein expression, DNA methylation

–One of the highest somatic mutation rates across cancers

–32 significantly mutated genes involved with multiple pathways

• 2015: Cohort increased to 412 tumors

–54 significantly mutated genes now identified

Future Directions: The Cancer Genome Atlas Project

Large opportunity for translational research & Targeted Therapy

The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network Nature 507, 315-322 (2014) doi:10.1038/nature12965

Take Home Points

•Bladder carcinoma is a common and deadly cancer usually diagnosed in the elderly and costs \$4 billion per year in the US

•Non-muscle invasive disease requires resection and often intravesical therapy with close follow up

•Gold standard treatment for muscle invasive disease remains cystectomy

•Knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying bladder carcinoma has recently increased exponentially – vast opportunity for translational research

DR. YAIR LOTAN

PROFESSOR, CHIEF UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY, HOLDER OF THE HELEN J. & ROBERT STRAUSS PROFESSORSHIP, UNIV. OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER

Genomic Landscape of Bladder Cancer

Yair Lotan Professor of Urology

Acknowledgement

  • Seth Lerner, BCM
  • Shahrokh Shariat, Univ. of Vienna
  • William Kim, UNC

Disclosures

  • Research Studies:
  • Abbott
  • Cepheid
  • Genomedx
  • Pacific Edge
  • MDxHealth
  • Photocure

Outline

  • Background
  • State of genomics
  • Potential Applications
  • Future directions

BLADDER CANCER: Epidemiologic Features

USA in 2015: 74,690 new cases

553,496 prevalence 15,580 deaths

Europe in 2012: 118,280 new cases

>600,000 prevalence >20,000 deaths

4th most common inand 11th in

Males
Prostate 241.740 29%
Lung & bronchus 116,470 14%
Colon & rectum 73,420 9%
Urinary bladder 55,600 7%
Melanoma of the skin 44.250 5%
Kidney & renal pelvis 40.250 5%
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 38,160 4%
Oral cavity & pharynx 28,540 3%
Leukemia 26.830 3%
Pancreas 22.090 3%
All Sites 848,170 100%

Peak incidence: after 7th decade (20% >80) Women with BCa have worse mortality than man!

Enormous challenge due to the

growth of our aging population

18,850 6%
13,980 5%
13,500 4%
12.040 4%
10.510 3%
10.320 3%
8,650 3%
301,820 100%

Causes: genetic, epigenetic, hormonal factors? unequal health care access and processes?

Likelihood of Tumor Progression

TUMOR TYPE % RELATIVE
FREQUENCY
%
PROGRESSION
% DEATHS
Noninvasive
Papilloma 10 $0 - 1$ 0
Papillary urothelial
neoplasm of low
malignant
potential
20 3 $0 - 1$
Papillary cancer low
grade (TaG1)
20 $5 - 10$ $1-5$
Papillary cancer high
grade (TaG3)
30 $15 - 40$ $10 - 25$
Invasive
Papillary cancer
(T1G3)
20 30-50 33
Carcinoma in Situ
Primary 10 >50
Secondary 90

Recurrence after Radical Cystectomy

US Drug Approvals in GU Cancers

Galsky et al, Clinical Advances in Hematology & Oncology, 2013

Three clusters - mutation/copy number data

Subtypes of High Grade Bladder Cancer

  • High grade tumors segregate into clusters
  • Differences in genetics drive:
  • Prognosis
    • Basal cell worse
  • Response to therapy
  • Gender
    • Basal resemble breast
    • More common women
  • Immune response

2010)

How Do We Use Genomic Information?

  • Diagnosis
  • Urine markers
  • Prediction of Outcomes
  • Tissue markers
  • Predict Response to Therapy
  • Identify Novel Therapeutics

Improved Bladder Cancer Detection

Current Diagnosis/Surveillance of Bladder Cancer

  • Visual inspection of bladder (Cystoscopy) and pathologic inspection of urine (Cytology)
  • Cystoscopy Limitations
  • Miss lesions especially carcinoma in situ
  • Can't see upper tract disease
  • Invasive
  • Cytology is inconsistent
  • Misses 20% of HG disease
  • Negative for most LG disease
  • 10-15% atypical
  • Not point of care

Tumor Marker Approaches

  • Biochemical detection of proteins or other urinary compounds
  • NMP22
  • Detection of cellular antigen by immunohistochemistry or cytochemistry
  • ImmunoCytTM
  • Detection of genetic alterationsFISH

NMP22 BladderChek Test

  • Detects elevated amounts of the nuclear matrix protein
  • Point-of-care test
  • FDA-approved for diagnosis of bladder cancer in high-risk patients.

UroVysion

  • Detects aneuploidy via Fluorescence in situ Hybridization
  • Abnormal result
  • More than 2-4 cells with multiple chromosomal gains
  • More than 9-11 cells with loss of both copies of 9p21

ImmunoCyt™/uCyt+™

  • Uses antibodies labeled with fluorescent markers
  • a mucin glycoprotein
  • carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)
  • Any cells expressing tumor antigen are then detected by fluorescence microscopy.
  • Recommended in combo with cytology

Cxbladder Monitor

  • Measures the gene expression levels of five biomarkers and incorporates previous UC occurrence to represent a bladder cancer signature used to:
  • MDK: Cell proliferation, migration, and angiogenesis in cancer cells
  • HOXA13: Cell differentiation and the morphogenesis and differentiation of the genitourinary tracts
  • CDC2 (CDK1): Essential to mitotic cell cycle: cell proliferation
  • IGFBP5: Anti-apoptotic gene
  • CXCR2: Mitigates neutrophil migration to areas of inflammation 60

Urinary Markers – selection of appropriate markers according to clinical needs

  • No single marker has demonstrated superior clinical utility over cytology and cystoscopy
  • All test sensitivities > cytology (low grade!)
  • All test specificities < cytology
  • There is no "ideal" marker
  • Not Recommended by EAU or AUA guidelines

Shariat et al., ICUD Guidelines 2012

Improved Prediction of Outcomes

Mitra et al., 2011

Using Tissue Markers to Predict Outcomes after Cystectomy

Combined cell-cycle biomarkers

Shariat et al., J Clin Oncol 2003

Combined apoptosis biomarkers

Karam et al., Lancet Oncol 2007

Performance of individual clinicopathologic variables and classifiers in the validation set for predicting cancer recurrence.

Anirban P. Mitra et al. JNCI J Natl Cancer Inst 2014;106:dju290

© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press.

Predict Response to Therapy

Recurrence after Radical Cystectomy

SWOG 8710 Randomized Neoadjuvant MVAC Chemotherapy Trial

Grossman et al., NEJM 2003

Dilemma of Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy

  • Level 1 evidence shows improvement in survival
  • 6%in 5yr survival only 20-25% of unselected pts benefit
  • Not everyone seems to need NAC
  • Organ-confined BC (~50% in contemporary series) have excellent survival following RC alone (80% cure)

and potentially undertreated

Chemotherapy is toxic

NAC favors advanced tumors: 42 mo cT3/4 vs 19 mo cT2

• Problem: current staging is inadequate and > 50% under-staged

The COXEN Principle: Prediction of treatment outcome (Theodorescu et. al, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007;104(32):13086)

SWOG 1314: A Randomized Phase II Study of COXEN with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Localized Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

PI: Thomas Flaig, MD Purpose: Biomarker validation and Biomarker discovery Primary study objective: To characterize relationship of MVAC-and GC-specific COXEN scores vs. pT0 rate in patients treated with neoadjuvant MVAC or GC Impact: Transform thinking about patient selection for neoadjuvant chemotherapy in urothelial cancer

Choi et al., Cancer Cell, 2014

From: Clinical Validation of Chemotherapy Response Biomarker ERCC2 in Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma

JAMA Oncol. Published online June 16, 2016. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.1056

  • ERCC2 is the helicase that unwinds DNA for repair via the nucleotide excision repair pathway
  • Important for repair of platinum-induced DNA damage.
  • Loss-of-function mutations leading to cisplatin sensitivity.

Summary

  • Need to improve selection of patients for multi-modal therapy
  • Cooperative group trial on COXEN will provide important information but not for years
  • Understanding biology using genomics is best chance to select patients

Identify Novel Therapeutics

How can TCGA Inform Clinical Questions

  • 69% of tumors harbor potential therapeutic targets
  • PI3K/AKT/mTOR (42%)
  • RTK/MAPK (44%)
  • Chromatin regulatory genes
  • Novel biomarkers/targets STAG2?
  • Should cancer treatment be organ specific or target/pathway specific?
  • Molecular classifier

Majority of samples have cell cycle regulatory pathways altered

Reverse translation from clinic to lab

  • E.g. Everolimus (mTORC1 inhibitor) in relapsed bladder cancer
  • Negative trial: 1 CR+1PR in 45 patients
  • Pt. with CR remained NED on drug for 36 mos

MSKCC lab: whole genomic sequencing identified 2 gene mutations in this patient: NF2 and TSC1

  • 1 CR: both gene mutations
  • 2 minor responses: one gene mutation (TSC1)
  • 9 Progressive disease: wild type TSC1

Everolimus is an active agent in metastatic

UC harboring TSC1 mutations (6.2%)

Milowsky et al., BJUI 2013

Iyer et al., Science 2012

RTK/Ras/PI3K pathways HER2/ERBB2 Activation as a potential therapeutic target

Her2 levels comparable to Her2+ breast cancer

NCI MATCH Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice

Precision medicine working group

  • Precision medicine clinical trial
  • Genotype to phenotype
  • Led by ECOG-ACRIN with NCI
  • Multiple (up to 30) Phase II arms
  • Eligibility based on molecular characteristics

Genes that are rarely mutated in one tumor type occur frequently across tumor types

  • Alterations in MTOR may also predict sensitivity to everolimus [Wagle et al. Cancer Discovery 2014]
  • Low frequency alterations in aggregate and across pathways are even more powerful.

Avoiding the PD-1 Immuncheckpoint Pathway1

Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nat Rev Cancer,1 copyright 2012. PD-1 = programmed cell death protein 1; PD-L1 = programmed cell death ligand 1; PD-L2 = programmed cell death ligand 2. 1. Pardoll DM. Nat Rev Cancer. 2012;12:252–264.

Atezolizumab in patients with locally advanced and metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have progressed following treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy: a single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 trial

The PD-L1 tumour-infiltrating immune cell (IC) status was defined by the percentage of PD-L1-positive immune cells in the tumour microenvironment: IC0 (<1%), IC1 (≥1% but <5%), and IC2/3 (≥5%).

Rosenberg et al. Lancet. 2016

Summary

Delineation of the genomic landscape and molecular subtypes will accelerate biomarker and drug development

NCI leading in design and support for "basket-type" clinical trials for Phase I/II

Molecularly-Driven Diagnostic & Therapeutic Development

  • Therapies will increasingly target the key molecular hubs that drive cancer growth - not just individual mutations
  • Treatments more personalized taking into account
  • when and how to intervene to hit the right targets
  • how treatments are likely to affect each patient
  • Future genetic modification: CRISPER/CAS9

OLD MODEL: Treatment determined by a tumor's location NEW MODEL: Treatment determined by key molecular "hubs" targeted within cells

Flexible clinical research guided by biomarkers

Criteria for entry in a trial based on molecular characteristics

Inclusion only of the participants most likely to respond based on molecular characteristics

  • Faster & more conclusively answers
  • Need to screen larger numbers of pts to identify participants

OLD MODEL: Large numbers of patients, not selected by molecular characteristics lower chance of effectiveness

NEW MODEL: Small patient populations with relevant molecular defects all participants potential to respond

Genomic Based Trial Design Key Hurdles

  • Biomarker validity
  • Next-Gen sequencing CLIA approved lab
  • Regulatory/FDA
  • Pharma/Biotech support
  • Funding
  • Trial leadership
  • Target/pathway prioritization

DR. JAMES MCKIERNAN

JOHN K. LATTIMER PROFESSOR & CHAIRMAN DEPT. OF UROLOGY, COLLEGE OF SURGEONS & UROLOGIST-IN-CHIEF AT NY PRESBYTERIAN COLUMBIA HOSPITAL & VICE CHAIR, AUA GUIDELINES COMMITTEE

Risk Stratification and Guidelines for Management of NMIBC

James McKiernan M.D. John K. Lattimer Professor and Chair

Department of Urology

Columbia University

Guidelines in NMIBC 2016 A case study

  • 57 year-old-male executive with first ever TURBT with white light
  • Reveals HG T1 UCC with squamous variant histology no muscle in the specimen no perioperative chemo
  • Waits 5 weeks and begins BCG therapy
  • Receives antibiotics with each BCG infusion
  • Does not have a repeat TURBT
  • Does not have squamous histology reported on first TURBT

Guidelines in NMIBC

  • Levels of evidence and strength of recommendation
  • Risk Stratification CUETO, EAU, WHO 1973 vs 2004
  • Initial evaluation
  • TURBT and re-TURBT
  • Intravesical therapy
  • Enhanced cystoscopy

• Surveillance schedules

EPIDEMIOLOGY

NMIBC represents approximately 75% of the 74,000 estimated new bladder cancer cases diagnosed in the United States in 2015. Bladder cancer is more common in males than females with a ratio of approximately 3:1, and it is the fourth most common solid malignancy in men.

PRESENTATION & DIAGNOSIS

The most common presenting symptom is painless hematuria

  • Urinary cytology
  • Bimanual exam
  • Imaging
  • CT
  • MRI

A diagnosis of bladder cancer is confirmed by direct visualization of the tumor using cystoscopy and TURBT. An adequate TURBT requires complete resection of all visible tumor with adequate sampling to assess the depth of invasion.

STAGING & GRADING

Staging of
primary tumors (T) in bladder cancer
TX Primary tumor cannot be assessed
Ta Noninvasive papillary carcinoma
Tis Carcinoma in situ (CIS)
T1 Tumor invades lamina propria
T2 Tumor invades muscularis
propria
T2a Tumor invades superficial muscularis
propria
(inner half)
T2b Tumor invades deep muscularis
propria
(outer half)
T3 Tumor invades perivesical
tissue/fat
T3a Tumor invades perivesical
tissue/fat microscopically
T3b Tumor invades perivesical
tissue fat macroscopically (extravesical
mass)
T4 Tumor invades prostate, uterus, vagina, pelvic wall, or abdominal wall
T4a Tumor invades adjacent organs (uterus, ovaries, prostate stoma)
T4b Tumor invades pelvic wall and/or abdominal wall

Staging for bladder cancer is separated into clinical and pathologic stage, as outlined by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), also known as the Tumor-Node-Metastases (TNM) classification. Clinical stage reflects the histologic findings at TURBT; the clinician's physical exam, including bimanual exam under anesthesia; and findings on radiologic imaging.

Edge 2010

STAGING & GRADING

Grade important prognostic factor for recurrence and progression WHO/ISUP 2004 grading system most widely accepted in the United States.

Pathologists: Classification of
Non-muscle Invasive Urothelial Neoplasia
Hyperplasia (flat and papillary)
Reactive atypia
Atypia of
unknown significance
Urothelial dysplasia
Urothelial CIS
Urothelial papilloma
Papillary urothelial neoplasm of
low malignant potential
Non-muscle invasive low-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma
Non-muscle invasive high-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma

2004 World Health Organization/ International Society of Urologic

PROGNOSIS

The survival prognosis for patients with NMIBC is relatively favorable, with the cancer-specific survival (CSS) in high-grade disease ranging from approximately 70-85% at 10 years and a much higher rate for low-grade disease.

The rates of recurrence and progression to MIBC are important surrogate endpoints for prognosis in NMIBC, as these are major determinants of longterm outcome.

Risk of
Progression
(%)
Risk of
Recurrence
(%)
Low-Grade Ta 6 55
High-Grade T1 17 45

Risk stratification in NMIBC aids personalized treatment decisions and surveillance strategies as opposed to a generalized 'one-size fits all' approach.

The survival rate for patients with localized Bladder Cancer is less in patients with localized prostate cancer

Palou 2012; Cookson 1997; Leblanc 1999

Levels of Evidence

  • 1 Evidence from meta-analysis or randomized trial o Should or will (Standard)
  • 2 Evidence from a controlled study without randomization or from well-designed quasi-experimental study o May consider
  • 3 Evidence from comparative studies, correlation studies and case reports
  • 4 Evidence from expert committee reports or opinions or clinical experience of respected authorities

AUA RISK STRATIFICATION SYSTEM

Low Risk Intermediate Risk High Risk
LGa
solitary Ta ≤ 3cm
Recurrence within 1 year, HG T1
LG Ta
PUNLMPb Solitary LG Ta > 3cm Any recurrent, HG Ta
LG Ta, multifocal HG Ta, >3cm (or multifocal)
HGc
Ta, ≤ 3cm
Any CISd
LG T1 Any BCG failure in HG patient
Any variant histology
Any LVIe
Any HG prostatic urethral
involvement
a
= low grade; bPUNLMP
LG
= papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential; c
HG
= high grade;

dCIS=carcinoma in situ; e LVI = lymphovascular invasion

GUIDELINE: RISK STRATIFICATION

5. At the time of each occurrence/recurrence, a clinician should assign a clinical stage and classify a patient accordingly as "low-, " "intermediate-, " or "high-risk." (Moderate Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade C)

EORTC/CUETO Model Tumor size, tumor focality, grade, stage

AUA/SUO Additions Lymphovascular invasion, prostatic urethral involvement, variant histology, poor response to BCG

GUIDELINE: TURBT/REPEAT RESECTION

  • 12. In a patient with non-muscle invasive disease who underwent an incomplete initial resection (not all visible tumor treated), a clinician should perform repeat transurethral resection or endoscopic treatment of all remaining tumor if technically feasible. (Strong Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade B)
  • 13. In a patient with high-risk, high-grade Ta tumors, a clinician should consider performing repeat transurethral resection of the primary tumor site within six weeks of the initial TURBT. (Moderate Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade C)
  • 14. In a patient with T1 disease, a clinician should perform repeat transurethral resection of the primary tumor site to include muscularis propria within six weeks of the initial TURBT. (Strong Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade B)

Routine Re-TUR Can it make BCG better?

  • 1,021 patients treated with BCG at MSKCC
  • Viable disease found in 55%
  • 44% relapse if no re -TUR and 9% if re-TUR
  • Only significant predictor of 5 -yr cure was re-TUR!!

Sfakianos and Herr J Urol 2013

GUIDELINE: INTRAVESICAL THERAPY

15. In a patient with suspected or known low- or intermediate-risk bladder cancer, a clinician should consider administration of a single postoperative instillation of intravesical chemotherapy (e.g., mitomycin C or epirubicin) within 24 hours of TURBT. In a patient with a suspected perforation or extensive resection, a clinician should not use postoperative chemotherapy. (Moderate Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade B)

Sylvester 2004

GUIDELINE: INTRAVESICAL THERAPY

  • 16.In a low-risk patient, a clinician should not administer induction intravesical therapy. (Moderate Recommendation; Strength of Evidence Grade C)
  • 17.In an intermediate-risk patient a clinician should consider administration of a six week course of induction intravesical chemotherapy or immunotherapy. (Moderate Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade B)
  • 18.In a high-risk patient with newly diagnosed CIS, high-grade T1, or high-risk Ta urothelial carcinoma, a clinician should administer a six-week induction course of BCG. (Strong Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade B)

GUIDELINE: INTRAVESICAL THERAPY

19.In an intermediate-risk patient who completely responds to an induction course of intravesical chemotherapy, a clinician may utilize maintenance therapy. (Conditional Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade C)

20.In an intermediate-risk patient who completely responds to induction BCG, a clinician should consider maintenance BCG for one year, as tolerated. (Moderate Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade C)

21.In a high-risk patient who completely responds to induction BCG, a clinician should continue maintenance BCG for three years, as tolerated. (Moderate Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade B)

GUIDELINE: ENHANCED CYSTOSCOPY

30. In a patient with NMIBC, a clinician should offer blue light cystoscopy at the time of TURBT, if available, to increase detection and decrease recurrence. (Moderate Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade B)

31. In a patient with NMIBC, a clinician may consider use of NBI to increase detection and decrease recurrence. (Conditional Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade C)

Enhanced Cystoscopy Revealing the Unseen Enemy

Blue Light Cystoscopy with Cysview Results from meta-analysis in 9 studies and > 2000 patients

Tumour type Patients in whom at least
one Ta or T1 tumour was
detected only by BL, $n(x)$
Meta-analysis event rate Patients in whom at
least one CIS lesion was
detected only by BL, $n(\mathcal{X})$
Meta-analysis event rate
Total
Primary cancer
188/831 (22.6)
66/360 (18.3)
$24.9%$ ; $p < 0.001$ (0.184-0.328)
20.7%; $p < 0.001$ (0.131-0.312)
68/268 (25.4)
31/111 (27.9)
$26.7\%$ ; $p < 0.001$ (0.183-0.371)
$28.0\%; p < 0.001 (0.193 - 0.388)$
Recurrent cancer 122/471 (25.9) 27.7%; $p < 0.001$ (0.218-0.343) 37/157 (23.6) $25.0\%; p < 0.001(0.168-0.354)$
High risk 97/397 (24.4) $27.0\%; p < 0.001(0.168 - 0.402)$
Intermediate risk 84/250 (33.6) $35.7%; p = 0.004(0.271 - 0.453)$
Low risk 7/183(3.8) 5.4%; $p < 0.001$ (0.026-0.106)

Burger M et al., European Journal of Urology 2013

the patients p<0.001

At least one additional Ta/T1 was found in 24.5% of

26.7% of the CIS patients were diagnosed with BLCC only p<0.001

Blue Light Cystoscopy with Cysview impacts recurrence of bladder cancer

Rate of recurrence reduced1 Time to recurrence prolonged2

Table 0 = Overall recurrence rates up to 12 months
Patients treated
with BL, $n$ $(\%)$
Patients treated
with WL, $n(\mathcal{X})$
Total Follow-up period
Hermann et al. [24] 27/68 (39.7) 38/77 (49.4) 145 $12 \text{ mo}$
Stenzl et al. [21] 72/200 (36.0) 92/202 (45.5) 402 9 mpo
Dragoescu et al. [25] 8/42(19.0) 17/45(37.8) 87 $12 \text{ mo}$
Total 107/310 (34.5) 147/324 (45.4) 634* $p = 0.006$ ; $RR = 0.761$ (0.627-0.924)
At least one T1 or CIS 26/74 (35.1) 45/87 (51.7) $161*$ $p = 0.052$ ; RR = 0.696 (0.482-1.003)
At least one Ta 92/256(35.9) 119/268 (44.4) $524^*$ $p = 0.040$ ; RR = 0.804 (0.653-0.991)
High-risk subgroup 46/126 (36.5) 70/144 (48.6) $p = 0.05$ ; RR = 0.752 (0.565-1.000)
Intermediate-risk subgroup 43/95(45.3) 40/74 (54.1) $p = 0.246$ ; RR = 0.836 (0.617-1.132)
Low-risk subgroup 14/78 (17.9) 34/98 (34.7) $p = 0.029$ ; RR = 0.561 (0.334-0.944)

Rate of recurrence is reduced by 10.9% p= <0.006 2. Grossman et al: Journal of Urology 2012

  1. Burger et al: European Journal of Urology 2013

Blue light cystoscopy with Cysview impacts progression of bladder cancer

Meta analysis in 5 studies and 1301 patients:

  • BLCC: 44/644 patients (6.8%)
  • WLC: 70/650 patients (10.7%), p=0.01

"This meta-analysis supports the assumption that the detection of NMIBC with BLCC reduces the risk of progression. Therefore patients should receive BLCC at their first resection as this might allow more patients at risk of progression to be treated timely and adequately"

Rate of progression reduced1 Time to progression prolonged2

1 Gakis et al, Bladder Cancer July 2016 2. Kamat et al. The Bladder Cancer Journal, April 2016

EAU Guidelines 2013 Enhanced Cystoscopy

• If equipment is available, use fluorescence -guided (PDD) biopsy instead of random biopsies when bladder CIS or HG tumor is suspected (e.g., positive cytology, recurrent tumor with previous history of a HG lesion).

GUIDELINE: SURVEILLANCE & FOLLOW UP

  • 32.After completion of the initial evaluation and treatment of a patient with NMIBC, a clinician should perform the first surveillance cystoscopy within three to four months. (Expert Opinion)
  • 33.For a low-risk patient whose first surveillance cystoscopy is negative for tumor, a clinician should perform subsequent surveillance cystoscopy six to nine months later, and then annually thereafter; surveillance after five years in the absence of recurrence should be based on shareddecision making between the patient and clinician. (Moderate Recommendation; Evidence Strength: Grade C)
  • 34.In an asymptomatic patient with a history of low -risk NMIBC, a clinician should not perform routine surveillance upper tract imaging. (Expert Opinion)

EAU Guidelines 2013 Surveillance

  • Low-risk Ta cysto at 3 months. If negative, subsequent cysto 9 months later, then yearly for 5 years.
  • High-risk cysto and urinary cytology every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months until 5 years, then yearly.
  • Intermediate-risk Ta in-between follow-up scheme using cysto and cytology, adapted according to personal and subjective factors.

EAU Guidelines 2013 Surveillance

  • Yearly upper tract imaging for high-risk tumors.
  • After BCG for CIS consider R-biopsies or biopsies with PDD at 3 or 6 months.
  • Positive cytology and no visible tumor in the bladder, R-biopsies or biopsies with PDD (if equipment is available) and CT urography, prostatic urethra biopsy.

Columbia/NYPH NMIBC Research Team 2015-2016

Ifeanyi Onyeji Wilson Sui Maxwell James Christopher Haas Alex Bandin Jamie Pak

Justin Matulay MD Solomon Woldu MD Lamont Barlow MD Alan Nieder MD Arindem Roychoudry PhD Cathy Mendelsohn PhD Michael Shen PhD Sara Barrone MA

Christopher Anderson MD, MPH Joel Decastro MD, MPH Mitchell Benson MD Cory Abate-Shen PhD

COMPANY UPDATE

Kjetil Hestdal, MD, President & CEO

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HEXVIX / CYSVIEW: CURRENT STATUS IN US AND EU

  • Hexvix® (EU) / Cysview ® (US) first approved drug-device procedure for improved detection and management of bladder cancer
  • Commercialized by Photocure in US and Nordic regions
  • Strategic partners in other regions
  • LTM in market sales growth of 18% to NOK 230 M (~USD 30 M)
  • Market penetration in Nordic at more than 40%
  • PHO launched Cysview in the US in 2012 a significant market opportunity
  • 300,000 bladder cancer resections (TURB) procedures yearly

  • Majority of TURBs done at 400 hospitals and in 50 top major metropolitan areas (MSA)
  • Currently at 79 hospitals up from 65 at end of 2015; Top 20 BLC accounts current estimated market penetration is 25%
  • BLFCC ongoing Phase 3 study in the US to support market expansion into the flexible surveillance market with more than 1 million procedures in the US market
  • Continued progress on passage of bill in US to provide separate payment to hospitals
  • Clinical trials ongoing to expand use in to larger "surveillance" market

HEXVIX / CYSVIEW: EXPANDING INTO THE SURVEILLANCE SEGMENT

  • Surveillance following initial diagnosis represents a significant growth opportunity
  • Utilizes flexible cystoscope
  • Market potentially 2 -3 times as large as TURB
  • Secured alignment with FDA on study design necessary to obtain label extension
  • Phase 3 market expansion study ongoing
  • Study results expected 2017

PHOTOCURE SUMMARY

121

Profitable Commercial
Franchise

Driven by Hexvix / Cysview for detection and management of bladder cancer

NOK 230 M (\$ ~30M) global in market sales LTM
Established own sales
operations

Strong position in US and local market

Potential to expand urology portfolio to leverage commercial infrastructure
Significant growth
prospects within
Urology

Large untapped potential for Hexvix / Cysview in current and near term market segments and territories
Further value potential
in late-stage pipeline

Seeking partnerships for Phase 3 ready non-urology assets

Cevira® (HPV related disease of cervix) and Visonac® (inflammatory acne)
Financials
Cash and equivalents of NOK 104.4 M (\$~15M) as at June 2016

Listed Nasdaq OMX Oslo: PHO (Mkt cap: approx. US\$ 120 M)

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