Overview of the Systemic Treatment Options for Advanced RCC

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Kidney cancer, which once had few treatment options, now has multiple oral targeted therapies leading to improved survival; immunotherapy combinations further increased clinical benefit over previous options, providing clinicians several approved regimens from which to choose the optimal therapy for each patient.

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Rohit Gosain, MD; Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, FASCO; and Rahul Gosain, MD, presenting slides
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