The International Kidney Cancer Symposium (IKCS) 2021 took place in North America over the weekend. The following presentations are of interest to kidney cancer patients and their families and are published by UroToday: Award lecture: Dr Brian Lane gave the Andrew C. Novick Award Lecture with a talk focusing on the management of small (T1) […]
Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) is an extremely rare and aggressive form of kidney cancer. It is almost exclusively found in young people who carry the sickle cell gene. The sickle cell gene is particularly common in people with an African or Caribbean family background and can cause a group of inherited conditions that affect the red blood […]
This phase Ib study reports the results of a combination of cabozantinib plus atezolizumab in people with advanced clear cell and non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The number and nature of side effects to the 40 mg and 60 mg dose of cabozantinib were similar. Around two thirds of patients reported side effects to […]
Non-clear cell RCC is about 20-25% of all RCC diagnoses and usually has worse survival outcomes than clear cell RCC. Both cabozantinib and immune checkpoint inhibitors have been shown to help patients with non-clear cell RCC. KEYNOTE-427 is a phase 2 study that looked at the treatment of people with RCC with pembrolizumab as their […]
The cabozantinib/nivolumab combination has been shown to be effective at improving survival in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in a phase 3 trial. This poster presentation from the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting at the weekend reports the results of a phase 2 trial of cabozantinib/nivolumab in patients […]
The cabozantinib/nivolumab combination has been shown to be effective at improving survival in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in a phase 3 trial. This study, presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting held virtually over the weekend reports the results of a phase 2 trial of cabozantinib/nivolumab […]
Results of a retrospective study presented during the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU) looked at the effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors (immunotherapy, e.g. nivolumab, ipilimumab, pembrolizumab) on the survival of patients with metastatic non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) compared to targeted therapy with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) […]
Data from the CheckMate-920 study on the safety and effectiveness of nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with advanced non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (nccRCC) was presented at the virtual American Society for Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU) in San Francisco this weekend. CheckMate-920 is a community-based, phase IIIb/IV clinical trial of nivolumab plus […]
The recent phase II KEYNOTE-427 study investigated the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab in patients with untreated advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and non-clear cell RCC. Pembrolizumab is a type of immunotherapy (an immune checkpoint inhibitor called a programmed death 1 inhibitor, PD-1), which has been shown to be effective in untreated patients […]
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 […]
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