
"I am glad that taking part in a trial might help others on their own cancer journey.”
This study was done to gather information that may help doctors predict how people with kidney cancer will respond to treatment.
When this study was done, doctors often treated kidney cancer with one of a group of targeted cancer treatments called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). This includes the drugs sunitinib, sorafenib and pazopanib.
But these treatments don’t work for everyone, and some people have more side effects than others. Some people need to take a lower dose or stop treatment altogether because of the side effects they are having.
Researchers wanted to see if there was a way to predict how well treatment will work, and who will have more side effects. They wanted to gather information from people having these treatments, to see if it could help.
The research team hoped to collect blood and tissue samples and look at how well people did after treatment. They planned to analyse the samples to find out more about people’s genetic material (DNA) and specific proteins in their blood.
The aim of this study was to collect information which may help predict how well TKIs work for people with advanced kidney cancer.
Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.
Professor Tim Eisen
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
European Commission (Seventh Framework Programme)
NIHR Clinical Research Network: Cancer
University of Cambridge
Freephone 0808 800 4040
"I am glad that taking part in a trial might help others on their own cancer journey.”