Do you routinely continue patients on anti-PD(L)-1 beyond 2 years of treatment while on IO/TKI for metastatic ccRCC?
Are there specific patients where you're more apt to continue versus holding IO while continuing TKI?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
I routinely continue anti-PD(L)-1 beyond 2 years while on IO/TKI for patients with clear cell RCC. Of course, this is assuming the patient is tolerating therapy well, continues to be with stable disease/response, and prefers continuation of therapy. I do have a discussion with them at the 2-yea...
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Medical Oncologist at St Louis Cancer Care LLP My approach is this: if a patient reaches the two-...
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
For the first-line treatment of patients with advanced RCC for all (favorable, intermediate, or poor) risk groups, axitinib in combination with pembrolizumab has shown a significantly higher overall response rate (ORR) and longer PFS based on the randomized phase III KEYNOTE-426 trial. (Rini et al.,...
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Medical Oncologist at University of South Dakota School of Medicine In most pembrolizumab trials - pembro was stopped ...
Medical Oncologist at Texas Oncology I agree. I discontinue pembrolizumab and TKI if th...
My approach is this: if a patient reaches the two-...