Dr Sumanta (Monty) Pal, Clinical Professor and Co-Director of the Kidney Cancer Programme, at the City of Hope Hospital, California talks about the changes in the management of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) over the past decade. He talks about combination treatments such as nivolumab with ipilimumab, which shows the potential for a complete response in […]
This article summarises the key breakthroughs in the treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in 2020, including a new first-line VEGF-TKI and immunotherapy combination (cabozantinib plus nivolumab) and immunotherapy as a new standard of treatment for patients with non−clear cell RCC and sarcomatoid RCC. Read more in Practice Update here Watch a video interview on […]
In this video interview, Dr Monty Pal from the City of Hope Hospital in California talks about a subset of patients in the COSMIC-021 (cohort 10) with non-clear cell RCC, such as papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and chromophobe RCC. Response rates exceeded 30%, which are very promising findings compared to TKIs alone. However, not […]
Treating non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is challenging because these diseases are rare, and so far there are no effective treatments for this group of patients. Non-clear cell RCC is currently treated in a similar way to clear cell RCC. In a phase 2 clinical trial, 31 patients with non-clear cell RCC were treated […]
Most people have a type of kidney cancer called clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC). A recent study has shown that people with clear cell RCC have a better response to tremelimumab (an anti-CTLA-4 antibody) compared with patients with non-clear cell RCC following a procedure called cryoablation (freezing the tumour using probes through the skin). […]
In this video interview with Dr Monty Pal from the City of Hope Hospital in California, treatment of non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with a combination of cabozantinib plus atezolizumab is discussed. Most research is focussed on clear cell RCC; however, non-clear cell RCC accounts for about 25% of all RCC diagnoses and usually […]
Non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for about 25% of all RCC diagnoses and usually has worse outcomes than clear cell RCC. Both cabozantinib and immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown preliminary activity in non-clear cell RCC. Cabozantinib appears to enhance the response to immune checkpoint inhibitors and has shown encouraging results in combination with […]
Nivolumab alone and in combination with ipilimumab is used for the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, most patients with non-clear cell RCC are excluded from clinical trials, and there is limited data on the effectiveness of nivolumab for the treatment of these patients. This phase IIIb/IV CheckMate 374 study was conducted to look at […]
This article nicely summarises the most exciting research highlights from the ASCO 2020 Virtual Scientific Programme which demonstrate the evolution of treatments for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), with a focus on combination treatments, salvage therapies and treatments for non-clear cell RCC. Read the review article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology here
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
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