2024
Impact of Synchronous versus Metachronous Metastasis on Outcomes in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Treated with First-line Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor–based Combinations
Gebrael G, Meza L, Li X, Zengin Z, Sayegh N, Ebrahimi H, Tripathi N, Castro D, Mercier B, Barragan-Carrillo R, Li H, Chehrazi-Raffle A, Swami U, Tripathi A, Agarwal N, Maughan B, Pal S. Impact of Synchronous versus Metachronous Metastasis on Outcomes in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Treated with First-line Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor–based Combinations. European Urology Focus 2024, 10: 812-817. PMID: 38580524, DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2024.03.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTime to treatment failureDisease control rateRenal cell carcinomaSynchronous metastasesMetachronous metastasesOverall survivalMetachronous metastatic renal cell carcinomaMedian time to treatment failureICI-based combination therapyAssociated with worse OSMetastatic renal cell carcinomaFirst-line immunotherapyICI-based combinationsRenal cell carcinoma diagnosisDiagnosis of kidney cancerHypothesis-generating studyMedian OSMetachronous groupPoor OSTreatment failureCombination therapyMetastasis onsetCell carcinomaSurvival outcomesClinical outcomes
2023
Real-World Outcomes of Latinx Versus Non-Latinx Patients Treated With First-Line Immunotherapy for Metastatic Renal-Cell Carcinoma
Chehrazi-Raffle A, Leong S, Ali S, Kim T, Melamed S, Li X, Zengin Z, Meza L, Chawla N, Govindarajan A, Castro D, Mercier B, Ebrahimi H, Dizman N, Tripathi N, Sayegh N, Rock A, Yeh J, Pal S, Onyshchenko M. Real-World Outcomes of Latinx Versus Non-Latinx Patients Treated With First-Line Immunotherapy for Metastatic Renal-Cell Carcinoma. The Oncologist 2023, 28: 1079-1084. PMID: 37432304, PMCID: PMC10712704, DOI: 10.1093/oncolo/oyad190.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic renal cell carcinomaProgression-free survivalComprehensive cancer centerNivolumab/ipilimumabShorter progression-free survivalOverall survivalRenal cell carcinomaLatinx patientsMultivariate Cox proportional hazards regressionCox proportional hazards regressionSafety-net healthcare systemHope Comprehensive Cancer CenterFirst-line immunotherapyTertiary oncology centerImmune checkpoint inhibitorsLos Angeles County DepartmentMedian overall survivalKaplan-Meier methodProportional hazards regressionDifferent healthcare settingsReal-world outcomesCheckpoint inhibitorsData cutoffClinical outcomesHazards regression