Kidney Carcinoma

The FDA has approved belzutifan to treat patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who have already undergone PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor and a VEGF tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

The duration of response was 39.2 months among patients with 1 metastatic site treated in the combination arm vs 29.5 months for patients given sunitinib.

Adjuvant pembrolizumab improved overall survival vs placebo in patients with renal cell carcinoma at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence.

Older patients with kidney cancer experienced “exceptional” disease control with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy—which is noninvasive and occurs in the outpatient setting.

Final overall survival analysis highlights benefit of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab vs sunitinib in the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Adjuvant pembrolizumab improved disease-free survival outcomes vs placebo across subgroups of patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma in the KEYNOTE-564 study.

A decision model with a 10-year time horizon found that nivolumab plus ipilimumab was the most effective combination for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, but sunitinib was the most cost-effective approach.