First-Line Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Inhibition in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: An Analysis of Practice Patterns From the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium

摘要

Using an established international renal cell carcinoma (RCC) database, we retrospectively characterized the use and efficacy of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors in treatment-naive metastatic RCC (mRCC) patients. Front-line mTOR inhibitors are used in clinical practice mostly in select patients, who have non-clear cell histology, poor prognostic features, or as part of clinical trials.Introduction/BackgroundApproval of the mTOR inhibitors for the treatment of mRCC was based on efficacy in poor-risk patients in the first-line setting for temsirolimus and in vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor-refractory patients for everolimus. We strove to characterize temsirolimus and everolimus use and effectiveness in the first-line setting.