IKCS 2021: Andrew C. Novick Award Lecture

(UroToday.com) At the 2021 International Kidney Cancer Symposium (IKCS): North America meeting, Dr. Brian Lane gave the Andrew C. Novick Award Lecture with a talk focusing on the management of T1 renal masses. In the context of understanding his career trajectory and his clinical and research interests, Dr. Lane began by highlighting the value of his […]

IKCS 2021: Outcomes of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy Followed by Active Surveillance in Metastatic RCC

(UroToday.com) In the Top Abstracts session of the 2021 International Kidney Cancer Symposium (IKCS): North America meeting, Dr. Khaleel presented their work examining outcomes for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) treated with initial cytoreductive nephrectomy followed by active surveillance. By way of background, Dr. Khalell highlighted that the role of cytoreductive nephrectomy is controversial […]

IKCS 2021: Systemic Therapy for Non-Clear Cell: Recent and Future Studies  

(UroToday.com) The International Kidney Cancer Symposium 2021 annual hybrid meeting included a non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) session and a presentation by Dr. Bradley McGregor discussing recent and future studies of systemic therapy for non-clear cell RCC. Dr. McGregor started by highlighting that non-clear cell RCC has worse outcomes than clear cell RCC. In a […]

IKCS 2021: Future of Adjuvant Therapy in RCC

(UroToday.com) In a session of the 2021 International Kidney Cancer Symposium (IKCS): North America meeting focused on the role and effects of adjuvant immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) on subsequent first-line therapy, Dr. Choueiri provided an overview of his perspective of the future of adjuvant therapy in this disease space.

IKCS 2021: Phenotypic Characterization of Renal Masses – The Virtual Biopsy  

(UroToday.com) The International Kidney Cancer Symposium 2021 annual hybrid meeting included a non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) session and a presentation by Dr. Ivan Pedrosa discussing phenotypic characterization of renal masses by a virtual biopsy approach. Dr. Pedrosa notes that many renal masses are found incidentally, typically by a single-phase ‘total body’ contrast-enhanced CT […]

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