Abstract
While many patients with early stage kidney cancer can be cured by removal of the tumor and kidney ('nephrectomy'), upward of 40% of patients can recur due to microscopic spread of the cancer prior to surgery. Adding anticancer drugs that are effective in the metastatic setting to surgery has potential to eliminate the microscopic disease and increase cure rates. The PROSPER renal cell carcinoma study is testing whether adding nivolumab, a drug that engages the immune system to better recognize, fight and eliminate the cancer, will improve disease control over surgery alone. Nivolumab will be given before and after surgery to see if it reduces the chance of the disease returning and decreases death from kidney cancer compared with patients receiving surgery only.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1683-1695 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Future Oncology |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2019 |
Keywords
- PROSPER RCC
- clinical trial
- kidney cancer
- neoadjuvant therapy
- nephrectomy
- nivolumab
- perioperative
- presurgical
- renal cell carcinoma
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oncology
- Cancer Research