Outcomes of metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma (pRCC) patients are poorly characterized in the era of targeted therapy. A total of 5474 patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) in the International mRCC Database Consortium (IMDC) were retrospectively analyzed. Outcomes were compared between clear cell (ccRCC; n = 5008) and papillary patients (n = 466), and recorded type I and type II papillary patients (n = 30 and n = 165, respectively). Overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall response rate (ORR) favored ccRCC over pRCC. OS was 8 months longer in ccRCC patients and the hazard ratio of death was 0.71 for ccRCC patients. No differences in PFS or ORR were detected between type I and II PRCC in this limited dataset. The median OS for type I pRCC was 20.0 months while the median OS for type II was 12.6 months (P = 0.096). The IMDC prognostic model was able to stratify pRCC patients into favorable risk (OS = 34.1 months), intermediate risk (OS = 17.0 months), and poor-risk groups (OS = 6.0 months). pRCC patient outcomes were inferior to ccRCC, even after controlling for IMDC prognostic factors. The IMDC prognostic model was able to effectively stratify pRCC patients.
Cancer medicine. 2017 Apr 16 [Epub ahead of print]
John Connor Wells, Frede Donskov, Anna P Fraccon, Felice Pasini, Georg A Bjarnason, Benoit Beuselinck, Jennifer J Knox, Sun Young Rha, Neeraj Agarwal, Isaac Alex Bowman, Jae-Lyun Lee, Sumanta K Pal, Sandy Srinivas, Douglas Scott Ernst, Ulka N Vaishampayan, Lori A Wood, Robin Simpson, Guillermo De Velasco, Toni K Choueiri, Daniel Y C Heng
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