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October 2, 2018
Nobel Prize Winner 2018 – Immunotherapies
James P. Allison, Ph.D., director of the Cancer Research Institute Scientific Advisory Council, has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in...
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August 8, 2018
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Columnist Robert Wilonsky Speaks About His Battle With Cancer
NBC Today Anchor Marc Fein: I had the honor of talking to DMN Dallas City Columnist Robert Wilonsky today about his battle with cancer. He was told he wouldn’t see his son’s next birthday. He did, and his story is remarkable.
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August 6, 2018
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Late-stage kidney cancer should have killed me. Thanks to these Dallas doctors, I have a chance
Robert Wilonsky, City Columnist Last summer, my doctor told me I would probably be dead before my son went to...
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July 21, 2018
New Clinical Trial at NIH
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, are enrolling patients with kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma) into a gene therapy study– a new type of precision medicine that genetically reprograms your immune cells to specifically recognize and kill tumor cells.
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July 16, 2018
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Newly diagnosed metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Daniel George, MD; Toni Choueiri, MD; Walter Stadler, MD; and Richard W. Joseph, MD, discuss data from the CABOSUN trial and the expanded FDA approval for cabozantinib versus sunitinib for previously untreated patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
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July 16, 2018
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Cancer patient saved by ‘seek and destroy’ cells
The first NHS cancer patient to benefit from a breakthrough procedure that primes the body’s immune system to ‘seek and destroy’ tumour cells has stunned doctors with his recovery after being given just weeks to live.
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July 5, 2018
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American Cancer Society Current Grants
American Cancer Society Current Grants by Cancer Type Current as of March 1, 2018 Cancer Type Number of Grants involving...
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July 3, 2018
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Dr Choueiri discusses checkpoint inhibitors in RCC
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June 28, 2018
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The PIVOT-02 Trial: NKTR-214 With Nivolumab
Adi Diab, MD, discusses the synergistic mechanisms of NKTR-214 and nivolumab and the promising results of the phase I/II PIVOT-02 trial evaluating the use of NKTR-214 combined with nivolumab in multiple solid tumor types.
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June 26, 2018
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Heading Toward Personalized Management of Advanced Kidney Cancer
The heterogeneity of kidney cancer makes each of the tumors unique and treatment decisions based on tumor characteristics especially challenging.
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June 26, 2018
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Dr. Pal Discusses the Role of PD-L1 in Metastatic RCC
Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, associate clinical professor, Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, co-director, Kidney Cancer Program, City of Hope, discusses the role of PD-L1 in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
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June 25, 2018
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Pembrolizumab active as first-line therapy in renal cell carcinoma subtype
Pembrolizumab monotherapy in the first-line setting induced a response among nearly 40% of patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma across all IMDC risk groups, according to interim results from cohort A of the KEYNOTE-427 trial presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting.
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June 23, 2018
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CUA 2018: Outcomes of Metastasectomy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients: The Canadian Kidney Cancer Information System Experience
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June 22, 2018
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Investigating Immunotherapy Treatment in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Charles G. Drake, MD, PhD, professor of medical oncology at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, discusses his thoughts on whether sunitinib would be more successful as a treatment for patients with renal cell carcinoma if used in the neoadjuvant setting. He debates whether immunotherapies or neoadjuvant therapies would be more useful.
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June 20, 2018
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The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of Immunotherapy 6/20/2018
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September 12, 2017
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Combination immunotherapy FDA approved
Combination immunotherapy improves kidney cancer survival September 12, 2017| Media Contact: Avery Anderson Dr. Hans Hammers, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and...
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August 21, 2017
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Immunotherapy Trial – Patient Success Story
72-year-old Larry Carlson was diagnosed with stage IV CCRCC in November of 2014. He came to the UT Southwestern Kidney Cancer Program shortly after. Larry shares his journey through diagnosis, surgery, and immunotherapy.
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March 7, 2017
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First Ever Kidney Cancer Funding from Congress (CDMRP)
Congressionally-directed Medical Research Program. It took over a decade of hard work from kidney cancer advocates to obtain kidney cancer-specific research funding included in the federal budget. Nevertheless, in March of 2017 Congress approved and the president signed the Consolidation Appropriations Act.
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November 10, 2016
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UT Southwestern – Cutting-edge Discoveries, Transforming Patient Care
UT Southwestern - Cutting-edge Discoveries, Transforming Patient Care The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2014, 63,920 people were diagnosed...
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September 10, 2016
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New HIF-2 kidney cancer therapy more effective than current treatment, study shows
UT Southwestern investigators report in Nature a new class of drugs against renal cancer, HIF-2 inhibitors, which are more efficacious...
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