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Updated European Association of Urology Guidelines on Renal Cell Carcinoma : Immune Checkpoint Inhibition Is the New Backbone in First-line Treatment of Metastatic Clear-cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Pembrolizumab plus axitinib is a new standard of care for patients diagnosed with kidney cancer spread outside the kidney and who did not receive any prior treatment for their cancer (treatment naïve).
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This article is published in European Urology.The article was published on 2019-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 167 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nivolumab & Clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

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Immunotherapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma: The Future Is Now

TL;DR: There is an urgent need to identify biomarkers in order to predict the efficacy of drugs and to better stratify patients to meet the unmet need of Renal cell carcinoma.
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Augmenting Anticancer Immunity Through Combined Targeting of Angiogenic and PD-1/PD-L1 Pathways: Challenges and Opportunities

TL;DR: The principle mechanisms of VEGF-mediated immunosuppression studied in preclinical models or as part of translational clinical studies are discussed and how these concepts and approaches can be further incorporated into clinical practice to improve immunotherapy outcomes for patients with cancer are discussed.
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Tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immunotherapy combinations in renal cell carcinoma

TL;DR: The clinical data of single-agent TKIs and ICIs in mRCC and the rationale for the combination ICIs and TKis based on preclinical and clinical evidence are discussed.
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Determinants of anti-PD-1 response and resistance in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

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- 08 Nov 2021 - 
TL;DR: ADAPTeR as mentioned in this paper is a prospective, phase II study of nivolumab (anti-PD-1) in 15 treatment-naive patients (115 multiregion tumor samples) with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) aiming to understand the mechanism underpinning therapeutic response.
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Safety evaluation of immune-based combinations in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed with the aim to compare adverse events from immune-based combinations versus sunitinib monotherapy across four recent randomized controlled trials of front-line treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma, with particular attention to the ipilimumab plus nivolumab combination.
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Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab versus Sunitinib in Advanced Renal-Cell Carcinoma

TL;DR: Overall survival and objective response rates were significantly higher with nivolumab plus ipilimumab than with sunitinib among intermediate‐ and poor‐risk patients with previously untreated advanced renal‐cell carcinoma.
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Offer cabozantinib to treatment-naive patients with IMDC intermediate-and poor-risk metastatic clear-cell RCC who cannot receive ortolerate immune checkpoint inhibition. 

Dr. Laurence Albiges has received consulting/advisory fees from BMS, Pfizer, Novartis, Sanofi, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bayer, and Cerulean; and research funding from Pfizer and Novartis.