Kidney Cancer

"The use of telemedicine is heavily dependent on supportive legislature," write Tracey L. Krupski, MD, and Jeunice Owens-Walton, MD.

"The combination demonstrated clinical activity and an acceptable safety profile in the perioperative setting for locally advanced, non-metastatic clear cell RCC," says Mehmet Asim Bilen, MD.

"We must lobby to maintain our current funding levels and push for increased support to continue driving progress in cancer care," says Michael S. Cookson, MD, MMHC, FACS.

A recap of the FDA submissions and regulatory decisions in urology from March 2025.

The European Commission must issue a decision on the application on or by June 2, 2025.

"The positive results from this phase 3 study of the sintilimab and fruquintinib combination represent a significant advancement in the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma,” says Prof Zhisong He.

The study will evaluate the investigational drug product ONC175 (orellanine) in patients with metastatic clear cell or papillary renal cell carcinoma.

“What we hope overall is that this is a biological study that might inform therapeutic development for this disease,” says David A. Braun, MD, PhD.

A recap of the FDA submissions and regulatory decisions in urology from February 2025.

“The primary end point is progression-free survival, and the secondary end points are overall survival, objective response rates, duration of response, and safety.”

“In the setting of widespread metastatic progression or failure, we typically prefer more systemic therapy with metastasis-directed therapy for symptomatic sites,” says Kate H. Gessner, MD, PhD.

"At ASCO GU, we presented the final analysis of the study, which confirmed the superiority of a combination over the TKI monotherapy in terms of both progression-free survival as well as overall survival," says Camillo Porta, MD.

Robert J. Motzer, MD, reported that median PFS was 16.4 months in the nivolumab plus cabozantinib arm (95% CI, 12.5-19.3) vs 8.3 months in the sunitinib arm (95% CI, 7.0-9.7) (HR=0.58, 95% CI, 0.49-0.70).

The conditional approval of belzutifan is valid for 1 year, with the opportunity for yearly renewal pending forthcoming data.

“Over 80% of patients…had at least 2 lines of therapy, so this is a heavily refractory population,” said Toni K. Choueiri, MD, FASCO.

ORR was 70% (95% CI, 55-82) in cohort 1 compared with 31% (95% CI, 19-45) in cohort 2.

"The take-home point from our study of these 92 patients is that in metastatic kidney cancer, there's a high concordance [between] MRD positivity and patients having progressive disease," says Alan Tan, MD.

At a median follow-up of 40.2 months post-surgery, no patients had experienced a disease recurrence.

A list of facts and trends to know about the current landscape of urologic cancer management and research in the US.

"What we show in our research is that cancers develop in different ways, depending on what the underlying genetic change is," says Taryn Treger.

At a median follow-up of 24.3 months, the confirmed objective response rate was 70%.

Among those with Signature II tumors, overall survival was improved among those who received nivolumab compared with those who received everolimus.

As the year comes to a close, we revisit some of this year’s top content on the management of renal cancer.

Initial data from the trial are expected to be released in the first half of 2025.

“What we've been working on is a giant 30,000 patient database study using the National Cancer Database to see exactly what the rates are of upstaging and downstaging for these larger kidney tumors,” says Taylor Goodstein, MD.