A study presented at the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) in Washington, USA last week concluded that universal initial active surveillance for patients with small renal masses (SRMs) less than 3 cm in diameter using predefined progression criteria can safely delay or avoid treatment for most patients. In the study, active surveillance was recommended for […]
Approval of axitinib plus pembrolizumab and axitinib plus avelumab in the first-line treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) by both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in America and the European Commission represent milestone events for the treatment of metastatic RCC in 2019. Approval of the avelumab plus axitinib combination was based on the […]
Water channel proteins, or aquaporins (AQPs) have been found in large amounts in tumour samples and have a role in the progression of cancer. This study looked at the messenger RNA (mRNA) expression for AQP9 and how this related to survival for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The data for this study came from […]
A study published in Clinical Genitourinary Cancer last month describes the real world clinical outcomes of treating advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients with pazopanib after they had already been treated with immunotherapy. A total of 258 patients were enrolled in the study and had been treated with immunotherapy before pazopanib as follows: nivolumab (68%), […]
A recent phase I clinical trial assessed the combination of everolimus (an mTOR inhibitor) with panobinostat (a histone deacetylase inhibitor) in 21 patients with clear-cell metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who had disease progression within 6 months of stopping treatment with VEGFR TKIs. Median progression-free survival was 4.1 months. Anaemia and thrombocytopenia were the most […]
A recent study looked at the efficacy and safety of first- or second-line avelumab (an anti–PD-L1 immunotherapy) in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC). A total of 62 patients were treated with avelumab in the first-line (intravenous infusion every 2 weeks) and 20 patients were treated with avelumab in the second-line. Most […]
In this paper, three clinical trials with immunotherapy combinations for the first-line treatment of clear renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are discussed. Dr Robert Motzer from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York compared the findings from the three trials at the Annual Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium (CFS) in New York last week. All three phase […]
Interim results from an ongoing clinical trial of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab has shown promise in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who have already received an immune checkpoint inhibitor. The trial included up to 360 patients with various cancers, of which 33 patients had metastatic clear cell RCC. The patients took a […]
Non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma are often treated similarly to clear cell RCC with the tyrosine kinase inhibitors, sunitinib and pazopanib. A recent study investigated the effectiveness of these two drugs for the first-line treatment of metastatic non-clear cell and sarcomatoid RCC. Of the 53 patients included in the […]
A recent study looked at the impact of stopping sunitinib during the first two cycles of treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Ninety-seven patients were analysed retrospectively and divided into two groups; those who had a dose interruption during the first two cycles of sunitinib treatment and those who did not. Thirty-eight patients (39.2%) […]
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