Andrea Necchi

Profession:
Oncologist
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IT

Biography

Professor Andrea Necchi is a medical oncologist specialized in the treatment of urological malignancies, Chief of the Genitourinary Medical Oncology Division at the San Raffaele Research Hospital in Milan. Holds a position of an Associate Professor of oncology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (UniSR).

Professor Necchi obtained his medical degree at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano), where subsequently completed the post-doctoral specialization in medical oncology. Since his clinical training as a medical student, he worked at the National Cancer Institute Foundation (Fondazione Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori) in Milan, Italy, till November 2020 when he started his practice at the San Raffaele Research Hospital.

Professor Necchi’s activity is fully dedicated to the treatment of genitourinary malignancies. His research team is focused on the entire spectrum of urological malignancies, and is primarily devoted to the development of all-phases clinical trials with new experimental therapies. In particular, his recent work was focused on the development of perioperative strategies aimed at delivering new therapies combined with radical surgery in early-stage of an operable disease.

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Publications

Latest publications

Pembrolizumab as Neoadjuvant Therapy Before Radical Cystectomy in Patients With Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma (PURE-01): An Open-Label, Single-Arm, Phase II Study.
J Clin Oncol. 2018 Dec 1;36(34):3353-3360.
Necchi A, Anichini A, Raggi D, et al.
Impact of Molecular Subtyping and Immune In ltration on Pathological Response and Outcome Following Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab in Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer
Eur Urol. 2020 Jun;77(6):701-710.
Necchi A, Raggi D, Gallina A, et al.
Does the administration of preoperative pembrolizumab lead to sustained remission post-cystectomy?
First survival outcomes from the PURE-01 study. Ann Oncol. 2020 Dec;31(12):1755-1763.
Bandini M, Gibb EA, Gallina A, et al.
Erda tinib in Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma
N Engl J Med. 2019 Jul 25;381(4):338-348.
Loriot Y, Necchi A, Park SH, et al.
Pazopanib in advanced and platinum-resistant urothelial cancer: an open-label, single group, phase 2 trial
Lancet Oncol 2012;8:810-16.
Necchi A, Mariani, Zaffaroni N, et al.
Proof of activity of anti-EGFR targeted therapy for relapsed squamous-cell carcinoma of the penis
J Clin Oncol 2011;29:2178-84.
Necchi A, Nicolai N, Colecchia C et al.
Pembrolizumab as Second-Line Therapy for Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma
N Engl J Med. 2017 Mar 16;376(11):1015-1026.
Bellmunt J, de Wit R, Vaughn DJ, et al.
Enfortumab vedotin after PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors in cisplatinineligible patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma (EV‑201): a multicentre, single-arm, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol
2021 Jun;22(6):872-882.
Yu EY, Petrylak DP, O'Donnell PH, et al.
Durvalumab alone and durvalumab plus tremelimumab versus chemotherapy in previously untreated patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (DANUBE): a randomised, open-label, multicentre, phase 3 trial
Lancet Oncol. 2020 Dec;21(12):1574-1588.
Powles T, van der Heijden MS, Castellano D, et al.
Nivolumab in metastatic urothelial carcinoma after platinum therapy (CheckMate 275): a multicentre, single-arm, phase 2 trial
Lancet Oncol. 2017 Mar;18(3):312-322.
Sharma P, Retz M, Siefker-Radtke A, et al.
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
Lancet. 2016 May 7;387(10031):1909-20.
Rosenberg JE, Hoffman-Censits J, Powles T, et al.
Atezolizumab as  rst-line treatment in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced and metastatic urothelial carcinoma: a single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 trial
Lancet. 2017 Jan 7;389(10064):67-76.
Balar AV, Galsky MD, Rosenberg JE, et al.
Ramucirumab plus docetaxel versus placebo plus docetaxel in patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma after platinum-based therapy (RANGE): a randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial
Lancet. 2017 Nov 18;390(10109):2266-2277.
Petrylak DP, de Wit R, Chi KN, et al.
Contrasting genomic pro les from metastatic sites, primary tumors, and liquid biopsies of advanced prostate cancer
Cancer. 2021 Aug 11. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33865. Online ahead of print.
Necchi A, Cucchiara V, Grivas P, et al.
Molecular Characterization of Residual Bladder Cancer after Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumabur
Eur Urol. 2021 Aug;80(2):149-159.
Necchi A, de Jong JJ, Raggi D, et al.

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