How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Affect Cancer Clinical Trials
Risks of moving clinical trials online include missing key information about the patient experience — and higher dropout rates could also impair the overall quality of trials.
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Two-Drug Combo Superior to Sunitinib as First-Line Therapy for Advanced RCC
Compared with sunitinib alone, nivolumab plus cabozantinib therapy was associated with a 49% decreased risk for progression and 40% decreased risk for death.
Investigators ID Predictors of CKD Progression After Radical Nephrectomy
Kidney microstructural features appear predictive of progressive CKD and mortality following radical nephrectomy.
Immunotherapy Improves Survival Despite Brain Metastases
Immunotherapy improved median overall survival by 7.5 months regardless of what other treatments patients received.
Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Metastasectomy Improves Outcomes
There is evidence to support the role of metastasectomy in providing patients with mRCC an improvement in certain clinical outcomes.
PN Risks May Outweigh Benefits in Some CKD Cases
Investigators highlight the importance of preoperative renal biopsy to rule out an indolent or benign tumor in patients with stage 4 CKD.
Complete Metastasectomy Found to Prolong Survival in mRCC
A study showed that mortality risk was reduced by 59% for patients who underwent complete metastasectomy compared with those who did not.
Renal Cell Carcinoma Outcomes: Does Hemodialysis Make a Difference?
Hemodialysis was found to be a poor prognostic factor for patients with RCC.
The Twitter Effect on How Oncologists Conduct and Share Research
The social media platform can be useful as an education tool for oncologists to stay up to date on new research in oncology — but physicians still need to be mindful of the information sources.
Growth Rates of Small RCC Tumors Vary by Histologic Subtype
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma tumors grow at a faster rate than papillary type 1 tumors, according to a new study.
How Patients Lose Their Own Voices: Disparities in Patient-Reported Outcome Capture in Clinical Trials
It remains important to interrogate how structural discrimination influences the collection of patient-reported outcomes.
Plasma DNA Assay Accurately Identifies Renal Cell Carcinoma
An assay that measures tumor-derived cell-free DNA in plasma discriminated between patients with and without renal cell carcinoma with 99% accuracy.
Study Points to a Rise in Renal Carcinomas in Children
The increase is thought to be related to environmental factors.
Researchers Reveal Racial Disparities in Access to Remdesivir for Patients With Cancer and COVID-19
Black patients were half as likely to receive remdesivir as White patients, according to researchers from the CCC19.
A Combination of Potential Biomarkers May Help Predict Response to Immunotherapy in mRCC
Combining 2 predictors yielded better results than just using 1.
Sarcomatoid Features in mRCC Predict Worse Survival After Cytoreductive Nephrectomy
Patients who have metastatic renal cell carcinoma with sarcomatoid differentiation in the primary tumor have an increased risk for death following cytoreductive nephrectomy, study found.
Cytoreductive Nephrectomy for mRCC Beneficial in Selected Cases
Upfront cytoreductive nephrectomy for mRCC patients with certain clinical characteristics may enable them to defer systemic therapy for a prolonged interval.
Conflicts of Interest Continue to Plague Oncology Guidelines and Research
New research presented at ASCO 2020 sheds light on conflicts of interest among NCCN panelists and links industry dollars to measures of academic success among junior faculty.
Why Cancer Centers May Need to Rethink the Hard Sell to Patients
Two recent papers are encouraging cancer center executives to rethink how they position their services to potential patients.
Hemodialysis Ups Kidney Cancer Death Risk
Among patients with renal cell carcinoma, those on hemodialysis have a 5 times higher risk of dying from the cancer than those not on dialysis, a study found.
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