Advances in the Treatment of Kidney and Upper Urinary Tract Cancers: Second Edition

A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Biology and Oncology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 546

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Dear Colleagues,

Kidney and Upper Tract Urinary Cancers (UTUC) are diseases with an increasing incidence, and the treatment of which are undergoing a continuous process of evolution. A characteristic feature of the picture composing the results of renal cell cancer (RCC) treatment is the significant heterogeneity of patients (including different stages of local advancement, different locations of metastases). Importantly, it is estimated that up to 30% of newly diagnosed RCC cases are patients with disseminated disease at the time of diagnosis. Therefore, predicting the response to modern treatment remains the unmet need of modern urologic oncology. Recent advancements in systematic treatment, i.e., immunotherapy, shed additional light on adjuvant treatment to be implemented in new clinical scenarios, including localized disease.

This Special Issue aims to cover novel approaches in the renal and urothelial cancers. We opt for original papers and reviews relating to advances in the treatment of Kidney and Upper Tract Urinary Cancers.

Dr. Łukasz Zapała
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Keywords

  • renal cancer
  • urothelial cancer
  • immunotherapy
  • systemic therapy

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Metastatic Kidney Cancer: Does the Location of the Metastases Matter? Moving towards Personalized Therapy for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
by Catalin Baston, Andreea Ioana Parosanu, Ioana-Miruna Stanciu and Cornelia Nitipir
Biomedicines 2024, 12(5), 1111; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12051111 - 16 May 2024
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The management of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has been revolutionized over the past two decades with several practice-changing treatments. Treatment for RCC often requires a multimodal approach: Local treatment, such as surgery or ablation, is typically recommended for patients with localized tumors, while [...] Read more.
The management of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has been revolutionized over the past two decades with several practice-changing treatments. Treatment for RCC often requires a multimodal approach: Local treatment, such as surgery or ablation, is typically recommended for patients with localized tumors, while stage IV cancers often require both local and systemic therapy. The treatment of advanced RCC heavily relies on immunotherapy and targeted therapy, which are highly contingent upon histological subtypes. Despite years of research on biomarkers for RCC, the standard of care is to choose systemic therapy based on the risk profile according to the International Metastatic RCC Database Consortium and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre models. However, many questions still need to be answered. Should we consider metastatic sites when deciding on treatment options for metastatic RCC? How do we choose between dual immunotherapy and combinations of immunotherapy and tyrosine kinase inhibitors? This review article aims to answer these unresolved questions surrounding the concept of personalized medicine. Full article
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