Active surveillance in selected patients with localized renal masses 4 cm to 7 cm and a patient-derived xenograft system for predicting response to targeted and immune therapies in patients with metastatic RCC were among other noteworthy kidney cancer studies presented at AUA 2018.
Active surveillance in selected patients with localized renal masses 4 cm to 7 cm and a patient-derived xenograft system for predicting response to targeted and immune therapies in patients with metastatic RCC were among other noteworthy kidney cancer studies presented at AUA 2018. The take-home messages were presented by Brian Keith McNeil, MD, of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Toripalimab plus axitinib approved in China for renal cell carcinoma
April 11th 2024The approval is based on findings from the phase 3 RENOTORCH trial, which showed that toripalimab plus axitinib prolonged progression-free survival and improved the objective response rate in patients with advanced RCC compared with sunitinib.
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.