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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?
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Medical Oncology · Emory University School of Medicine
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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-year mar...

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Medical Oncology · Mary Lanning Healthcare Morrison Cancer Center/University of Nebraska Medical Center Adjunct Faculty
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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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