Sarcopenic patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma have distinct bacterial populations that express metabolic pathways associated with a catabolic state.
CBM588, a live bacterial product, improves the efficacy of first-line treatment with nivolumab and ipilimumab in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, a study suggests.
Among patients with renal cell carcinoma, clinical presentation, extent of disease, and germline and somatic alterations differ according to genetic ancestry.
Second progression-free survival is significantly longer with lenvatinib-pembrolizumab than with sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Adding ilixadencel to treatment with sunitinib does not appear to improve outcomes in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma undergoing nephrectomy.
Tivozanib improves long-term progression-free survival, when compared with sorafenib, in patients with relapsed or refractory metastatic renal cell carcinoma, an analysis suggests.
Patients receiving first-line pembrolizumab-axitinib for metastatic renal cell carcinoma have lower health care resource utilization than patients receiving ipilimumab-nivolumab.
Immunotherapy-based combinations have overtaken TKI monotherapy as the most-used first-line treatment for mRCC in US oncology clinics, a study suggests.