2023
Genomic and Transcriptomic Characteristics of Tumors of Patients with Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Clinically Benefiting from First-Line Treatment with Ipilimumab Plus Nivolumab
Tripathi N, Meza L, Sayegh N, Govindarajan A, Byron S, Zhang J, Chigarira B, Jo Y, Zengin Z, Li H, Gebrael G, Desai A, Agarwal N, Swami U, Maughan B, Pal S. Genomic and Transcriptomic Characteristics of Tumors of Patients with Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Clinically Benefiting from First-Line Treatment with Ipilimumab Plus Nivolumab. Kidney Cancer 2023, 7: 137-145. DOI: 10.3233/kca-230011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMetastatic renal cell carcinomaClear cell metastatic renal cell carcinomaClinical benefit groupRenal cell carcinomaClinical benefitNivolumab therapyCell carcinomaPoor-risk metastatic renal cell carcinomaMetastatic clear cell renal cell carcinomaBenefit groupClear cell renal cell carcinomaFirst-line ipilimumabIMDC risk scoresFirst-line treatmentCell renal cell carcinomaAlteration frequencyChi-square testMRCC patientsStable diseaseComplete responsePartial responseSystemic therapyLine treatmentInflammatory pathwaysTumor-specific gene expression
2021
Complementary Role of Circulating Tumor DNA Assessment and Tissue Genomic Profiling in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Zengin ZB, Weipert C, Salgia NJ, Dizman N, Hsu J, Meza L, Chehrazi-Raffle A, Muddasani R, Salgia S, Malhotra J, Chawla N, Philip EJ, Kiedrowski L, Maughan BL, Rathi N, Goel D, Choueiri TK, Agarwal N, Pal SK. Complementary Role of Circulating Tumor DNA Assessment and Tissue Genomic Profiling in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research 2021, 27: 4807-4813. PMID: 34130999, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-0572.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic renal cell carcinomaCell-free tumor DNARenal cell carcinomaGenomic profilingCell carcinomaTissue-based testingTumor DNA (ctDNA) assessmentClinical Laboratory Improvement AmendmentsActionable alterationsCtDNA profilingCtDNA assessmentPatientsTumor DNAUnique alterationsAlteration frequencyCarcinomaDNA assessmentBloodGreater temporal separationTissueAlterationsConcordancePrevious findingsMutationsConcordance analysis