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Patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) typically receive systemic treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). Side effects include the hand-foot syndrome (HFS), tiredness, nausea, decreased appetite, diarrhea, myelosuppression, and hypertension. This study seeks to define the relationship between the incidence of HFS after the first cycle of treatment with sunitinib as the first-line treatment for mRCC (50 mg/day, 6-week schedule: 4 weeks on and 2 weeks off) and progression-free survival. We found that patients, treated with sunitinib for mRCC, who did not experience HFS had the median progression-free survival of 9.8 months. HFS symptoms appeared in 20% of patients after the first treatment cycle. The appearance of HFS was a predictor of a longer progression-free survival. In fact, progression-free survival was elongated in the HFS group over and beyond the observation period of 60 months, which rendered the median progression-free survival calculation impossible. These findings reaffirm the importance of monitoring skin toxicity during treatment with TKI. We conclude that the appearance of adverse skin symptoms presages better outcomes in patients treated with sunitinib for mRCC.
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JK received a research grant from Novartis Poland and speaker honoraria from Pfizer, Bayer, and IPSEN companies. PW received speaker honoraria from Pfizer, Bayer, Novartis, and IPSEN. The remaining authors declare no conflicts of interest in relation to this article.
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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Bioethics Committee (permission no. 38/2018) of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland.
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Kucharz, J. et al. (2019). Hand-Foot Syndrome and Progression-Free Survival in Patients Treated with Sunitinib for Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. In: Pokorski, M. (eds) Advances in Medicine and Medical Research. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology(), vol 1133. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2018_328
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