“These are consistent results that continue to demonstrate a disease-free survival benefit of pembrolizumab adjuvant versus placebo,” says Toni K. Choueiri, MD.
In this video, Toni K. Choueiri, MD, discusses the background, findings, and takeaways of the study, “Pembrolizumab as post nephrectomy adjuvant therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma: Results from 30-month follow-up of KEYNOTE-564,” which was presented at the 2022 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Choueiri is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician, director of the Genitourinary Oncology Disease Center, and director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.
KIM-1 emerges as biomarker for MRD, atezolizumab benefit in renal cell carcinoma
June 3rd 2024Circulating kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) may be a biomarker for minimal residual disease, disease recurrence, and benefit from adjuvant atezolizumab in patients with renal cell carcinoma at increased risk of recurrence, according to a retrospective analysis of the phase 3 IMmotion010 trial.