Exceptional Responders to Anti-PD1 Therapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma

Adjuvant pembrolizumab had an estimated 91.2% overall survival rate after 4 years compared with 86.0% for patients with clear-cell renal cell carcinoma who received a placebo.

In this episode of Emerging Experts, Peter Zang, MD, highlights research on baseline CD8 lymph node avidity with 89-Zr-crefmirlimab for the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and response to immunotherapy.

Aaron Lisberg, MD, discussed the phase 3 TROPION-Lung01 study which evaluated datopotamab deruxtecan for patients with advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

In our 4th episode of Emerging Experts, Minas P. Economides, MD, unveils the challenges and opportunities for renal cell carcinoma treatment, focusing on the lack of therapies available in the second-line setting.

A real-world study found adding a PD-L1 inhibitor to cabozantinib offered no significant survival advantage for patients with metastatic kidney cancer who had already received a PD-L1 inhibitor.

Sarah Lee, MD, MBA, discussed a study to better disaggregate the subgroup of Asian American patients with ovarian cancer.