Kidney Cancer

Treatment with stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy resulted in no observed local failures or cancer-related deaths among patients with primary renal cell cancer.

“The take-home message is: Don’t assume bad things if the tumor is growing during chemotherapy," says Andrew M. Davidoff, MD.

With the dosing of the first patient in Italy, Telix’s expanded access program for TLX250-CDx in ccRCC now includes 3 active countries, including the Netherlands and the US.

The VISTA-101 study has dosed all patients at dose level 5 of 6 in the KVA12123 monotherapy arm and all patients at the dose level 2 of 4 in the KVA12123-pembrolizumab combination arm.

“This research suggests that proactive and continuous management of metabolic syndrome may serve as an essential strategy in preventing cancer," says Han-Ping Shi, MD, PhD.

The FIT-001 trial is assessing KO-2806 as a monotherapy and in combination with targeted therapies in patients with advanced solid tumors, including ccRCC.

The study plans to enroll 144 patients with solid tumors, including RCC, non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal carcinoma (CRC), and other malignancies known to express HHLA2/B7-H7.

“These clinical data show encouraging safety and efficacy with JANX007 in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and with JANX008 in late-stage solid tumors," says David Campbell, PhD.

In total, the investigators assessed data from 886 patients with advanced kidney cancer who were randomly assigned to receive avelumab plus axitinib or subitinib.

“The results suggest there is a clinically meaningful population of patients who can experience a long-term survival benefit from tivozanib over sorafenib,” said Kathryn E. Beckermann, MD, PhD.

Immunotherapy initiation within 1 month of death for patients with renal cell carcinoma increased from 0.5% to 2.6% over the course of the study.

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

The combination was explored in genomically defined metastatic renal cell carcinoma cohorts.

"The study was done between April 2021 to 2023, so a 2-year span. It was surprising to find that 24% of our patients in that time span had opioid-free discharge," says Katherine Wang, MD.

"Again, operating has more and more taken a backseat as the armamentarium of systemic medications, especially checkpoint inhibitors [and] combination treatments, has exploded," says Harras B. Zaid, MD.

The approval is supported by findings from the phase 3 LITESPARK-005 trial.

“There has been a stage migration in part related to the availability of cross-sectional imaging, but there's still a proportion of patients who present with locally advanced disease,” says Harras B. Zaid, MD.

"In 2021, we started collecting data on opioids prescribed at discharge to see whether or not patients did or did not get prescribed opioids," says Katherine Wang, MD.

W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized expert in kidney cancer, is Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Data from the phase 2 LITESPARK-004 trial led to the FDA approval of belzutifan for patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease who require therapy for associated renal cell carcinoma and other diseases.

The novel TKI zanzalintinib demonstrated early efficacy signals with manageable toxicity in patients with advanced clear-cell renal cell carcinoma.

Researchers are exploring the potential of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with renal cell carcinoma who have disease progression following treatment with checkpoint inhibitors and VEGF inhibitors.

Adjuvant pembrolizumab improved overall survival compared with placebo in patients with renal cell carcinoma at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence following nephrectomy, or following nephrectomy and resection of metastatic lesions.

Data showed noninferiority of subcutaneous nivolumab to intravenous nivolumab in the time-average to nivolumab serum concentration over 28 days (Cavgd28) and the trough serum concentration at steady state (Cminss).