2016 – Using Interferon Alfa Before Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors May Increase Survival in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Turkish Oncology Group (TOG) Study
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for approximately 2% of all cancers.1 On admission, one-third of patients with RCC are at the metastatic stage.2 Chemotherapy resistance is very high in patients with RCC.3 Only a limited subset of patients ( 20%) benefit from cytokine therapy.4-7 It has been shown that the median progressionfree survival (PFS) was…