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Dr. McKay on the shifting second-line paradigm in advanced renal cell carcinoma

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Rana McKay, MD, says that given the frontline shift from anti-VEGF monotherapy to immunotherapy doublets for advanced renal cell carcinoma, many of the studies informing the second-line setting have become “somewhat antiquated.”

Rana McKay, MD, discusses the evolving treatment paradigm in the second-line setting for advanced renal cell carcinoma now that immunotherapy has revolutionized the first-line approach. McKay is a medical oncologist and associate professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center

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