email article That s a demand that utterly outstrips the supply that we have. Jim Jackson, PsyD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, on a study suggesting that many COVID survivors have post-traumatic stress disorder. It s like taking a football and shoving it into a pipe with the diameter of a golf ball. David Nauen, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, about the unexpected presence of megakaryocytes in the brain capillaries of people who died with COVID-19. This is one of those findings where you can hear it at [the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium] and take it to the clinic on Monday. Sumanta Pal, MD, of City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California, discussing a new option for a rare type of kidney cancer.
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Cabozantinib (Cabometyx) came out on top as upfront therapy in metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in a randomized phase II study.
Treatment with the multikinase inhibitor yielded a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 9.0 months, as compared to 5.6 months with sunitinib (Sutent), which has been the default standard of care in this setting (HR 0.60, 95% CI 0.37-0.97, one-sided
P=0.019), reported Sumanta Pal, MD, of City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California.
Overall response rate was significantly improved with cabozantinib compared with sunitinib (23% vs 4%,
P=0.01), and 5% versus none, respectively, had complete responses, according to findings presented at the virtual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (GUCS) and published simultaneously in the
You’ve just been diagnosed with kidney cancer. As you absorb the news, you may feel like the path you thought you were on has suddenly veered off into a thick fog, and you aren’t sure where to go. What will your diagnosis mean for your future? Where will it lead you? What aspects of your life are going to be different? What adjustments will you need to make?
It’s true that a cancer diagnosis is life-altering, sometimes in small ways, but often in bigger ones. “A kidney cancer diagnosis can change many things in a person’s life,” says Moshe Ornstein, M.D., a medical oncologist who specializes in treating the disease at the Cleveland Clinic. Let’s take a look at what your “new normal” might look like.