Sunitinib Malate Before and After Surgery in Treating Patients With Previously Untreated Metastatic Kidney Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Sunitinib malate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor. Giving sunitinib malate before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed. Giving sunitinib malate after surgery may kill any tumor cells that remain after surgery. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving sunitinib malate before and after surgery works in treating patients with metastatic kidney cancer.

Timeline

Start

2007-08

Primary completion

2010-08

Completion

2012-05

Publications

• Results Powles T, Chowdhury S, Bower M, Saunders N, Lim L, Shamash J, Sarwar N, Sadev A, Peters J, Green J, Boleti K, Augwal S. The effect of sunitinib on immune subsets in metastatic clear cell renal cancer. Urol Int. 2011;86(1):53-9. doi: 10.1159/000319498. Epub 2010 Oct 26.
• Stewart GD, Powles T, Van Neste C, Meynert A, O'Mahony F, Laird A, Deforce D, Van Nieuwerburgh F, Trooskens G, Van Criekinge W, De Meyer T, Harrison DJ. Dynamic epigenetic changes to VHL occur with sunitinib in metastatic clear cell renal cancer. Oncotarget. 2016 May 3;7(18):25241-50. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.8308.
• Stewart GD, O'Mahony FC, Laird A, Rashid S, Martin SA, Eory L, Lubbock AL, Nanda J, O'Donnell M, Mackay A, Mullen P, McNeill SA, Riddick AC, Aitchison M, Berney D, Bex A, Overton IM, Harrison DJ, Powles T. Carbonic anhydrase 9 expression increases with vascular endothelial growth factor-targeted therapy and is predictive of outcome in metastatic clear cell renal cancer. Eur Urol. 2014 Nov;66(5):956-63. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2014.04.007. Epub 2014 May 10.
• Shaw GL, Hussain M, Nair R, Bycroft J, Beltran L, Green JS, Powles T, Peters JL. Performing cytoreductive nephrectomy following targeted sunitinib therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a surgical perspective. Urol Int. 2012;89(1):83-8. doi: 10.1159/000338057. Epub 2012 May 16.

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