Daniele Santini, Matteo Santoni, Alessandro Conti, Giuseppe Procopio, Elena Verzoni, Luca Galli, Giuseppe di Lorenzo, Ugo De Giorgi, Delia De Lisi, Maurizio Nicodemo, Marco Maruzzo, Francesco Massari, Sebastiano Buti, Emanuela Altobelli, Elisa Biasco, Riccardo Ricotta, Camillo Porta, Bruno Vincenzi, Rocco Papalia, Paolo Marchetti, Luciano Burattini, Rossana Berardi, Giovanni Muto, Rodolfo Montironi, Stefano Cascinu, Giuseppe Tonini
PURPOSE: We retrospectively analyzed the risk of recurrence and conditional Disease-Free Survival (cDFS) in 63 patients with complete remission during treatment with tirosin kinase inhibitor (TKI), alone or with local treatment in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. RESULTS: 37% patients achieve CR with TKI alone, while 63% with additional loco-regional treatments. 49% patients recurred after CR, with a median Disease free survival of 28.2 months. Patients treated with multimodal approaches present lower rate of recurrence (40% vs 61%) and longer Disease free survival compared to patient treated with TKI alone (16...
May 31, 2016: Oncotarget