Kidney Cancer

More than 20% of patients with non–clear cell RCC had a germline mutation, and half of this group could benefit from direct systemic therapy.

This is the first diagnostic classification of RCCs in patients younger than age 30 prospectively registered in a cooperative group clinical study.

In RCC patients on anti–PD-1 therapy, besides the indel count link to better OS, baseline tumor infiltration with M2 macrophages predicted improved PFS.

Making some changes to the gut microbiome may improve outcomes with immune checkpoint inhibitors in renal cell carcinoma.

In the Italian RESORT trial, sorafenib did not affect recurrence-free survival in patients with mRCC following radical resection of metastases.

Pembrolizumab monotherapy showed promising antitumor activity in clear cell RCC in the phase II KEYNOTE-427 trial.

Patients treated for RCC with atezolizumab plus bevacizumab reported fewer impacts to daily function and quality of life than those on sunitinib.

For many patients diagnosed with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, sunitinib alone is not inferior to surgery followed by sunitinib.

Preliminary findings for pegilodecakin plus immune checkpoint inhibition suggest that the combination is tolerable and shows clinical activity.

No one molecular biomarker is likely to guide treatment of RCC in the foreseeable future. Multipredictor models might be a way forward, an expert concluded.

Routinely available patient and tumor features accurately predicted the risk progression and death from RCC post nephrectomy, a Mayo Clinic team found.

A pooled retrospective analysis of nearly 5,000 mRCC patients in phase II and III trials showed PFS among NSAIDs users was half that of NSAIDs nonusers.

The significantly better PFS compared with sunitinib supports cabozantinib as initial therapy for patients with advanced RCC of intermediate or poor risk.

In a pivotal trial, combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab yielded improvement in OS and ORR of poor-risk RCC patients.

Antibiotics administered within 30 days of starting immunotherapy reduced both PFS and OS for patients with advanced RCC and NSCLC.

A phase III study by Dr. Robert Motzer and colleagues in NEJM found significantly higher OS and ORRs with the immunotherapy combination.

First-line combination therapy with the PD-L1 inhibitor avelumab and the VEGFR TKI axitinib yielded antitumor activity in previously untreated RCC.

Compared with sorafenib, tivozanib significantly improved PFS and OS, and yielded significantly higher ORRs, a crossover analysis of TIVO-1 found.

First- and second-line treatment of clear cell RCC has changed dramatically, Dr. Eric Jonasch said during the NCCN Annual Conference in Orlando.

In a large Chinese study, in certain RCC subgroups cancer-specific survival outcomes were better with partial rather than radical nephrectomy.

Patients who received Bacteroides-targeting antibiotics had a median PFS of 18 months compared with 8 months in patients with no antibiotic use.

Pazopanib was not associated with prolonged progression-free survival compared with temsirolimus among patients with advanced clear-cell renal cell carcinoma, but a subgroup analysis of intermediate-risk patients offered some reason for optimism.

Adjuvant therapy with sunitinib after nephrectomy was associated with increased mortality among older women with renal cell carcinoma, according to a subgroup analysis of data from the ASSURE trial.

Combining axitinib and pembrolizumab is “safe and tolerable” among patients with previously untreated advanced renal cell carcinoma, with 73% of patients responding, according to findings from an open-label, phase Ib trial.

Metastatic RCC patients treated with cabozantinib had similar quality-of-life outcomes as those treated with everolimus, but had a longer time to deterioration.