One of the major breakthroughs this year the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-2α inhibitor: MK6482 for von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease–related clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC). VHL disease is a hereditary disease that affects many organs of the body, such as the eyes, brain, spine, pancreas, kidneys and lymphatic system. It is caused by a mutation in […]
In this video interview, Dr Eric Jonasch from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas in the USA talks about managing adverse events to immunotherapy and targeted therapy combinations. There are more adverse events from any type of combination treatment compared to single treatments, especially immune adverse events. Nivolumab alone is very well tolerated and quite easy […]
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 […]
In these video interviews, Dr Eric Jonasch from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas and Dr Monty Pal from the City of Hope Hospital in California talk about immune-related adverse events in people with advanced kidney cancer taking combination therapies and immunotherapy: Managing Adverse Events Among RCC Patients Receiving Combination Treatment With Targeted Therapy and […]
This prospective, randomised study in 20 people looked at the ability of probiotic supplements to modify the clinical benefit of targeted therapy (VEGF-TKIs cabozantinib or sunitinib) in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients. The study showed that in people with metastatic RCC, the clinical benefit rate was similar in people taking probiotics compared to those who […]
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). […]
Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease–associated renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has always been difficult to treat. However, a group of researchers led by Dr William G. Kaelin Jr from the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in America have discovered treatments including immunotherapy, HIF-2α inhibitors, and potentially CDK4/6 inhibitors for the treatment of VHL-associated RCC. He […]
This study, to be published in Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, looks at the immune-related adverse event, acute interstitial nephritis (inflammation of the kidney tissues), as a biomarker for response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Using a database, the researchers identified 177 patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who received at least one dose of […]
A protein called γ-glutamyltransferase can predict survival in patients with local and metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC); however, in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as nivolumab, this predictive role is unknown. A study to be published in the International Journal of Clinical Oncology aimed to investigate the role of γ-glutamyltransferase as a predictive […]
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