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Ref Type | Journal Article |
PMID | (19707433) |
Authors | Coppin C |
Title | Sunitinib for advanced renal cell cancer. |
Journal | Biologics : targets & therapy |
Vol | 2 |
Issue | 1 |
Date | 2008 Mar |
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Abstract Text | Renal cell cancer has been refractory to drug therapy in the large majority of patients. Targeted agents including sunitinib have been intensively evaluated in renal cell cancer over the past 5 years. Sunitinib is an oral small molecule inhibitor of several targets including multiple tyrosine kinase receptors of the angiogenesis pathway. This review surveys the rationale, development, validation, and clinical use of sunitinib that received conditional approval for use in North America and Europe in 2006. In patients with the clear-cell subtype of renal cell cancer and metastatic disease with good or moderate prognostic factors for survival, sunitinib 50 mg for 4 weeks of a 6-week cycle provides superior surrogate and patient-reported outcomes when compared with interferon-alfa, the previous commonly used first-line drug. Overall survival has not yet shown improvement over interferon and is problematic because of patient crossover from the control arm to sunitinib at disease progression. Toxicity is significant but manageable with experienced monitoring. Sunitinib therapy is an important step forward for this condition. High cost and limited efficacy support the ongoing search for further improved therapy. |
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Unknown unknown | renal cell carcinoma | not applicable | Sunitinib | FDA approved | Actionable | In a Phase III clinical trial that supported FDA approval, treatment with Sutent (sunitinib) resulted in improved median progression free survival (47.3 weeks) and objective response rate (27.5%) in patients with renal cell carcinoma (PMID: 19707433). | 19707433 detail... |