Sustained long-term clinical and radiological response with sunitinib for metastatic renal-cell carcinoma (RCC)

Abstract

The authors herein report the case of a 67-year-old woman with metastatic renal-cell carcinoma (RCC), who has had a sustained clinical and stable radiological response to long-term therapy with an oral multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), sunitinib with minimal lasting toxicity.

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Quintyne, K. , Neenan, T. , Wallis, F. and Gupta, R. (2013) Sustained long-term clinical and radiological response with sunitinib for metastatic renal-cell carcinoma (RCC). Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 2, 29-31. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2013.21008.

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