A retrospective study published in the European Journal of Cancer this month looked at the activity of cabozantinib after immune checkpoint inhibitors in people with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The overall response rate was 36%, with a median overall survival of 13 months. Cabozantinib appeared to be well tolerated and there were […]
Results from the pivotal phase 3 CheckMate-9ER clinical trial evaluating nivolumab (Opdivo) in combination with cabozantinib (Cabometyx) compared to sunitinib in previously untreated advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) were released today. These top-line results were positive for the combination treatment, which improved progression-free survival, overall survival and objective response rate compared to sunitinib. […]
In this video interview, Dr Monty Pal from the City of Hope cancer centre in California, USA, talks about the clinical trials involving cabozantinib in combination with atezolizumab for clear cell and non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Watch the video interview on Practice Update here
A recent literature review and network meta-analysis of phase 2/3 randomised, controlled clinical trials of approved first-line tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) involving more than 4,200 patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has shown that cabozantinib, sunitinib, pazopanib, and tivozanib have similar efficacy, but tivozanib’s safety profile is superior to the profiles of the other […]
In this interview taken from the International Kidney Cancer Symposium (IKCS) 2019 held in Miami, USA earlier this month, Dr Tian Zhang, from Duke University talks about existing and emerging immunotherapy biomarkers for kidney cancer, and the PEDIGREE study. Dr Zhang talks about PBRM1, PD-L1, and tumour mutational burden as prognostic biomarkers, and angiogenesis, CD8-infiltrating […]
Currently, doctors are unsure which is the best first-line treatment for patients with rare and advanced kidney cancers. During a debate at the 18th International Kidney Cancer Symposium (IKCS), 5 doctors discussed their opinions. During the debate, the use of immunotherapy versus targeted kinase inhibitors (TKI) for the first-line treatment of advanced non-clear cell renal […]
A recent study published in Clinical Cancer Research analysed tumour tissue samples obtained in a clinical trial to investigate how the expression of the PD-L1 receptor on the tumour cells influenced outcomes in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) receiving targeted therapy. Positive expression of the PD-L1 receptor on RCC tumour cells was associated […]
Based on promising efficacy findings, the COSMIC-021 clinical trial has been expanded from the original two indications (non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and prostate cancer) and is now open to patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), urothelial cancer, breast cancer and ovarian cancer. The phase 1b, open-label trial assesses the combination of cabozantinib (Cabometyx) and […]
Telaglenastat is an oral glutaminase inhibitor and this is the first time it has been administered to humans. Glutaminase is a key enzyme that controls the glutamine pathway that is prominent in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and important for the tumour to thrive in the body. In pre-clinical models, telaglenastat was found to synergise with […]
A retrospective study using data from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium (IMDC) dataset looked at the efficacy of nivolumab (225 patients) and cabozantinib (53 patients) when used to treat metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in the real world. The study found similar outcomes for patients treated with nivolumab and cabozantinib in the […]
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