Tian Zhang, MD, discusses the ongoing phase 3 PDIGREE study (NCT03793166) exploring immunotherapy with nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) followed by nivolumab or nivolumab with cabozantinib (Cabometyx) for patients with intermediate/poor-risk metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Zhang, who is an associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, was interviewed during the 2021 Kidney cancer research summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Updated data show survival benefit with adjuvant pembrolizumab in ccRCC
April 19th 2024“This is the first study to show a statistically significant and clinically meaningful survival improvement with any adjuvant therapy in kidney cancer, and this further supports adjuvant pembrolizumab as a standard of care after surgery in this disease setting,” says Toni K. Choueiri, MD.
Dr. Richard Matulewicz discusses smoking cessation counseling and treatment among urologists
March 31st 2021“Because so many disease processes that we deal with are related to tobacco use and smoking specifically… I think this is absolutely our domain,” says Richard S. Matulewicz, MD, of tobacco cessation counseling and treatment.