Background: A retrospective, registry-based analysis to assess the outcomes of metastatic renal cell cancer (mRCC) patients treated with sunitinib and sorafenib who developed dermatologic adverse events was performed.
Patients and Methods: Data on mRCC patients treated with sunitinib or sorafenib were obtained from the Czech Clinical Registry of Renal Cell Cancer Patients. Outcomes of patients who developed hand-foot syndrome (HFS) of any grade and/or grade 3/4 rash during the treatment were compared with patients without HFS and no, mild, or moderate rash.
Results: The cohort included 705 patients treated with sunitinib and 365 patients treated with sorafenib. For sunitinib, the median overall survival (OS) was 43.0 months versus 31.0 months (P = 0.027) and median progression-free survival (PFS) 20.8 months versus 11.1 months (P = 0.007) for patients with versus without dermatologic toxicity, respectively. For sorafenib, the median OS and PFS were 27.9 and 24.6 months (P = 0.244), and 12.2 and 8.8 months (P = 0.050), respectively. In multivariable Cox regression, the skin toxicity was significantly associated with longer OS in the sunitinib cohort.
Conclusion: The presence of skin toxicity is associated with improved OS and PFS in patients with mRCC treated with sunitinib.
Written by:
Poprach A, Pavlik T, Melichar B, Puzanov I, Dusek L, Bortlicek Z, Vyzula R, Abrahamova J, Buchler T. Are you the author?
Department of Complex Oncology Care, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno.
Reference: Ann Oncol. 2012 Jun 13. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1093/annonc/mds145
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22700990
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