How would use of adjuvant pembrolizumab after nephrectomy for ccRCC impact your treatment choice for metastatic recurrence?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
I think treatment selection after recurrence/metastases will depend on the timing after adjuvant pembrolizumab has been completed. If it's about 9 months or more, I think re-challenge with pure IO/IO combination is fair, especially if a patient tolerated pembrolizumab well. If it's within 3-6 months...
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Adjuvant IO in RCC is an evolving field, with the adjuvant pembro data showing a DFS advantage and other large trials pending. Whether there will be an OS advantage and whether a subset of patients are cured with adjuvant pembro (versus only delaying recurrence) is yet to be determined. Nonetheless,...
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Adjuvant use of pembrolizumab following nephrectomy will be an emerging phenomenon. Therefore, this is a very important question. I would propose that I would typically use cabozantinib as monotherapy in this setting, given the data we have for the agent post-immunotherapy. While there is no definit...