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© 2011 Genitourinary Publishing, Inc.
Dr EscudierGUEST EDITOR'S MEMO
Bernard Escudier, MD

Rediscovering How We Treat Kidney Cancer
and Modify Risky Behavior


New data that emerges from ongoing clinical trials of targeted therapies hold our attention throughout the year, and in recent years these new agents have vastly expanded the treatment spectrum. Although such news tends to overshadow other studies—such as those presenting epidemiologic data—it is worthwhile to turn our attention from time to time to basic research that gives us insights and benchmarks
for evaluating our treatment paradigms and strategies to modify risk.
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Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma:
Patient Characteristics, Treatment Patterns, and
Schedule Compliance in Clinical Practice

Gregory P. Hess, MD, MBA; Chi-Chang Chen, PhD; and Jerrold W. Hill, PhD; Zhimei Liu, PhD; Dean H. Gesme, MD; Sanjiv S. Agarwala, MD

Cigarette Smoking and Renal Cell Carcinoma
Matvey Tsivian, MD and Thomas J. Plascik, MD

Medical Intelligence
Tracking Trends From Web-based Sources, Translational Research,
the FDA, and Patient Registries


Journal Club
Essential Peer-Reviewed Reading in Kidney Cancer

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FDA Grants Fast Track to RENCAREX© for
Adjuvant Therapy of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

MUNICH—WILEX AG has announced that RENCAREX© has been granted Fast Track designation by the FDA. The drug is undergoing the pivotal phase 3 trial ARISER (Adjuvant RENCAREX Immunotherapy trial to Study Efficacy in nonmetastasised Renal cell carcinoma).

Early Blood Test Stratifies Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients for Progression-Free Survival on 2 Therapies
BROOMFIELD, CO—Data presented at the 10th
International Kidney Cancer Symposium in Chicago
showed that the pretreatment blood-based test, VeriStrat, was able to stratify patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treated with a combination of 2 targeted therapies, sunitinib (Sutent®) and erlotinib (Tarceva©), by survival outcomes.

Abstracts from the European Society of Medical
Oncology and the European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, Stockholm , September 23-27, 2011

The European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress reported an attendance of almost 16,000 from 116 countries, according to the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO).

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