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Staging Renal Cell Carcinoma

Posted by karishma @karishma, May 20, 2019

My friend now only recognized that she have left renal carcinoma.it measures 15.9×9.6.i want to know that which stage is this.?

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mrodriguezc | @mrodriguezc | Jul 10, 2021
In reply to @jimchardy "I am stage four and was diagnosed in May, 2013. My first chemo treatment was sunitinib..." + (show)
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I am stage four and was diagnosed in May, 2013. My first chemo treatment was sunitinib and it was effective for about five years. Then, the lesions began expanding and my oncologist switched me to an immunotherapy treatment called Opdivo, which appeared to be ineffective, so he switched to cabosantinib . The side effects were severe and I elected to go into hospice. Even though this meant I was giving up on pharmaceutical treatment all together, I felt so much better, I stayed on it until my doctor called to let me know there is a new drug on the market that is a combination chemotherapy and pharmaceutical that has been shown to be effective on the cancers I am dealing with. I am awaiting the drug due to it coming through the V A.

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Hola, cual es el nombre del nuevo tratamiento?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Jul 14, 2021
In reply to @mrodriguezc "Hola, cual es el nombre del nuevo tratamiento?" + (show)
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Hola, cual es el nombre del nuevo tratamiento?

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Hola @mrodriguezc.
I hope that @jimchardy returns to answer your question about the treatment he is on. I believe he was referring to either avelumab (BAVENCIO) in combination with axitinib (inlyta)
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resources-information-approved-drugs/fda-approves-avelumab-plus-axitinib-renal-cell-carcinoma
Or with avelumab with Keytruda (Pembrolizumab)

How are you doing?

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