Toni Choueiri, MD

Toni Choueiri, MD, discusses nivolumab, ipilimumab, and cabozantinib combinations in ongoing phase 3 trials as treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Toni Choueiri, MD, director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, director, Kidney Cancer Center, senior physician, at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Chair and professor of medicine, at Harvard Medical School, highlights key trials in kidney cancer presented at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting.

Toni Choueiri, MD, discusses some of the ongoing clinical trials in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

Toni Choueiri, MD, discusses the results of the ALLIANCE A031203 trial comparing cabozantinib and sunitinib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

Choueiri says that while both drugs have a chance to become first-line therapies, nivolumab does more so than cabozantinib. He says there is a phase III study that has recently finish accrual that looks at combining nivolumab and ipilimumab, in comparison to sunitinib, as a treatment for RCC.