Advice for Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

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When Sean Korbitz was a 20-year-old college student, his life trajectory changed with a rare cancer diagnosis, resulting in the removal of 40 tumors; fifteen years later, a new drug made him feel like a “medical miracle.”

Patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma treated with zanzalintinib had experienced promising antitumor activity with manageable toxicity regardless of prior treatment with cabozantinib.

If an oncologist was apprehensive about Steven Edwards getting a second opinion, that might not be the right doctor for him, the kidney cancer survivor said.

Although research has delved into the potential link between clonal hematopoiesis and heart-related events such as heart attacks and strokes in patients with kidney cancer, more research is needed to further understand this association.

Circulating tumor DNA — which is observed via blood test — may be helpful in determining which patients with kidney cancer need more intense treatment and who can have their therapies deescalated.