Kidney Cancer

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare approved pembrolizumab for use in 4 indications, including high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer, stage IIB or IIC melanoma, adjuvant renal cell carcinoma, and recurrent/metastatic cervical cancer.

Findings from the phase 2 KEYNOTE-B61 trial demonstrated promising efficacy with a combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib in the frontline treatment of non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Data from the phase 2 LITESPARK-003 trial demonstrated antitumor activity and a well-tolerated safety profile with belzutifan plus cabozantinib in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Results from the LITESPARK-003 trial showed continued antitumor activity after 2 years with belzutifan plus cabozantinib.

Findings from the phase 2 BIONIKK trial demonstrated an association between treatment efficacy and increased in situ and immune expression.

The risk for disease progression or death was reduced by 27% with the addition of cabozantinib to nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with previously untreated renal cell carcinoma.

The final readout of the phase 2 TITAN-RCC trial highlighted an improvement in responses following an individualized regimen of nivolumab and ipilimumab boost after single-agent nivolumab in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma given lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab had sustained overall survival and progression-free survival benefit vs sunitinib, according to updated results of the CLEAR trial.

Patients with localized recall cell carcinoma did not have improved disease-free survival with adjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab vs placebo.

Phase 3 data regarding perioperative nivolumab did not show recurrence-free survival benefit, but data from the study may help inform future research.

Data from the phase 3 IMmotion010 trial revealed no benefit of adjuvant atezolizumab vs placebo for resectable renal cell carcinoma.

Patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma may experience successfully downstaging of venous tumor thrombus extent with neoadjuvant axitinib.

A health-related quality of life survey found similar outcomes between those treated with pembrolizumab plus axitinib vs sunitinib in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

A panel of oncologists reviews a publication by Robert J. Motzer, MD, and colleagues on data from the CLEAR trial examining lenvatinib plus either pembrolizumab or everolimus for advanced renal cell carcinoma.

The primary end point of progression-free survival was met in the phase 3 COSMIC-313 trial which investigated cabozantinib, nivolumab, and ipilimumab in previously untreated, advanced intermediate- or poor-risk renal cell carcinoma.

Experts share their thoughts on recent advances in treatment options for metastatic renal cell carcinoma and comment on emerging data in the field.

Patients with very high-risk renal cell carcinoma experienced a notable relapse-free survival benefit vs placebo following treatment with everolimus.

Lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab decreased the risk of disease progression or death on second-line therapy by 50% compared with sunitinib in the phase 3 CLEAR trial.

Results of the phase 3 EVEREST trial show adjuvant everolimus improved recurrence-free survival for patients with very high-risk renal cell carcinoma.

In an OncView™ program, David H. Aggen, MD, PhD, Robert S. Alter, MD, Arnab Basu, MD, MPH, FACP, Mehmet Asim Bilen, MD, and Chung-Han Lee, MD, MPH, offer their expert insights for the treatment of RCC.

Interim results from the phase 2 PADRES trial demonstrated that partial nephrectomy may be possible for a subgroup of patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma with complex masses who received neoadjuvant axitinib.

Results from the phase 2 BIONIKK trial highlighted the feasibility and positive impact of selecting patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma for treatment with nivolumab plus or minus ipilimumab and a VEGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor based on molecular phenotype.

Robert Alter, MD, comments on the importance of team-based care and frequent, timely communication in managing patients with RCC.

David Aggen, MD, PhD, identifies dosing strategies that may maximize treatment efficacy while minimizing toxicity in patients with kidney cancer.

Patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who were treated with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab had health-related quality of life comparable with sunitinib.