Researchers report long-term follow-up results showing no significant difference in oncologic outcomes among partial nephrectomy, radiofrequency ablation, and cryoablation for cT1 renal tumors.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Bavencio (avelumab; EMD Serono), a programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) blocking antibody, in combination with Inlyta (axitinib; Pfizer), a kinase inhibitor, for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Elevated C-reactive protein levels prior to nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma is associated with an increased risk of renal impairment, a study found.
In a study, left-sided renal cell carcinoma (RCC) was associated with a 15% to 20% increased risk of dying from the malignancy compared with right-sided RCC.
FDA approved pembrolizumab, a PD-1 inhibitor, in combination with axitinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, for the first-line treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma.
An analysis of the immunotherapy combination compared with sunitinib placed the combo on the high end of willingness-to-pay thresholds for cancer drugs.
There are no biomarkers that have been prospectively validated to help predict which patients with non-clear cell RCC might respond to cabozantinib.
Concerns about conflict of interest as it relates to prescribing may never go away, some say, as long as drug companies offer doctors money for consulting and personal services.
Compared with sorafenib, tivozanib was associated with improved progression-free survival and objective response rate, researchers reported.
About 25% of patients with previously untreated advanced non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma had an objective response to pembrolizumab.
