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Published in Renal Cell Carcinoma

Expert Opinion / Cases · February 20, 2020

Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Right Kidney

Zukiswa Jafta

 

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  • María Marta  Bader

    Feb 21, 2020

    I think that chemotheraty will not be useful. I'll press in " this case" to obtain Sunitinib.
    But I'm not prescribing more this TKI in first line.

  • Eric Jonasch MD

    Eric  Jonasch MD

    Feb 24, 2020

    Recommendations for this individual are to obtain a drug like sunitinib to control disease growth, as this will provide her the highest chance of benefit.  An older alternative, which has provided more modest benefit, is the combination of gemcitabine 600mg/m2 IV every 2 weeks and capecitabine 1000-1250mg/m2 by mouth daily 10 days on and 4 days off.  Cytoreductive nephrectomy or any surgical intervention is unlikely to help, as the major cause of morbidity and mortality in her case will be her metastatic disease, and disease course is unlikely to be favorably altered by surgery. 


  • Laszlo Torday

    Feb 24, 2020

    Just as an add-on to previous comments, considering the fact of the unavailability of any kind of IO+TKI/IO combo (these are probably just dreams there, like here in Hungary, right now...), a good VEGFR-TKI would be the best choice for the patient. And on the basis of toxicity profiles, and connected side effect management issues, probably not the sunitinib is the best option but tivozantinib, or axitinib, or pazopanib. And we should not forget the good old sorafenib which could also do a satisfactory job, if managed properly...

  • Ismail Abdelhafeez

    Feb 27, 2020

    If sunitinib unaffordable... supportive management !

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