Adjuvant treatment with pembrolizumab significantly improved overall survival vs placebo in patients with renal cell carcinoma at intermediate-high or high risk of recurrence after nephrectomy, or after nephrectomy and resection of metastatic lesions, meeting a key secondary end point of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 trial.
Bertrand F. Tombal, MD, PhD, explains how data on the clinically relevant drug-drug interactions and TRAEs with darolutamide, docetaxel and ADT support previously reported efficacy data from the ARASENS trial, and presents lingering questions and caveats from this trial that should be addressed through continued research.
Adjuvant pembrolizumab prolonged disease-free survival and distant metastasis–free survival vs placebo in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma at increased risk of recurrence after nephrectomy, irrespective of UCLA Integrated Staging System risk category and disease stage.