Advanced Kidney Cancer: Treatment in the Second Line and Beyond

“In LITESPARK-005, PFS and response rates favored belzutifan vs everolimus across [several patient subgroups, including] IMDC risk, number of prior lines [of therapy], and number of prior VEGF TKIs, specifically,” said Laurence Albiges, MD, PhD.

Experts discuss findings related to liquid biopsy profiling, later-line immunotherapy, and CDK4/6 inhibitor efficacy presented at the 2024 KCRS meeting.

“This is currently the largest pooled safety dataset for a HIF-2α inhibitor we need to be familiar with,” lead study author Toni K. Choueiri, MD.

Santosh Rao, MD, discusses the formation of new guidelines informing the use of integrative oncology for patients with kidney cancer from the Society for Integrative Oncology.

Collecting and analyzing patient data through an AI tool may help with more accurately predicting outcomes and personalizing treatment.

Data from CheckMate 214 show a steady improvement in overall survival with nivolumab/ipilimumab in patients with favorable-risk disease.