First-Line Treatment for Intermediate and Poor Risk Advanced or Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.

Combination therapies with immune checkpoint blockers have shown improvements in overall response rate, progression free survival, and overall survival over monotherapy with sunitinib in intermediate and poor risk subgroups. Identification of best upfront therapy may be guided by future clinical trials utilizing adaptive strategies, triplet therapy, or novel biomarkers.

Hematology/oncology clinics of North America. 2023 May 29 [Epub ahead of print]

Michael T Serzan, Wenxin Xu, Stephanie A Berg

Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street D1230, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street D1230, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: .