Post-Surgery Treatment of Localized Kidney Cancer

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Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, FASCO, joins Rohit Gosain, MD, and Rahul Gosain, MD, to discuss risk stratification and treatment practices for patients with localized kidney cancer following surgery.

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Given resource scarcity, developing practice strategies for resource-constrained settings would require aid from commercial and government stakeholders.
Large international meetings may facilitate conversations regarding disparities of care outside of high-income countries.
Observing changes in the tumor microenvironment before and after a biopsy may elucidate how kidney cancer cells interact with immune cells.
Various kidney cancer trials have combined agents such as A2a receptor inhibitors with immunotherapy backbones to potentially improve treatment outcomes.
Leveraging novel agents, innovative clinical trial designs, and correlative studies may improve the treatment of patients with kidney cancer.
An “avalanche of funding” has propelled the kidney cancer field forward, says Jason Muhitch, PhD.
Kidney cancer advocacy efforts have spread the urgency and importance of funding research in the field to members of Congress.
Advocacy efforts have yielded a dramatic increase in kidney cancer research, according to Elizabeth P. Henske, MD.
A review of patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma shows radiological tumor burden as an independent prognostic factor for survival.
A phase 2 trial is assessing ubamatamab in patients with MUC16-expressing SMARCB1-deficient renal medullary carcinoma and epithelioid sarcoma.
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