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Abstract Oral Presentations

11:15am - 12:15pm Friday, 8th October, 2021

Breaks Sessions

Moderators and Panelists Rana McKay, Sumanta Pal

Join Dr. Monty Pal and Dr. Rana McKay for original research presentations and discussions.


A phase 3 trial of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab versus sunitinib as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma: overall survival follow-up analysis (the CLEAR study)

Toni K. Choueiri MD1, Thomas Powles2, Camillo Porta3, Masatoshi Eto4, Viktor Grünwald5, Thomas E. Hutson6, Boris Alekseev7, Sun Young Rha8, Evgeny Kopyltsov9, Maria José Méndez-Vidal10, Anil Kapoor11, Teresa Alonso Gordoa12, Jeffrey C. Goh13, Jaime R. Merchan14, Se Hoon Park15, Michael Staehler16, Alan D. Smith17, Jodi McKenzie18, Rodolfo F. Perini19, Cixin He18, Robert Motzer20
1Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA. 2The Royal Free NHS Trust, London, England, UK. 3San Matteo University Hospital Foundation, Pavia, Italy. 4Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. 5University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany. 6Texas Oncology, Dallas, TX, USA. 7P.A. Hertsen Moscow Cancer Research Institute, Moscow, Russia. 8Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, South Korea. 9State Institution of Healthcare “Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary”, Omsk, Russia. 10Maimonides Institute for Biomedical research of Cordoba (IMIBIC) Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Medical Oncology Department, Córdoba, Spain. 11McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 12Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain. 13ICON Research, South Brisbane & University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia. 14University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL, USA. 15Sungkyunkwan University Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. 16University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. 17Eisai Ltd., Hatfield, UK. 18Eisai Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA. 19Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. 20Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York, NY, USA


Characterization of responders in the phase 3 CheckMate 9ER trial: nivolumab plus cabozantinib versus sunitinib in patients with previously untreated advanced renal cell carcinoma

Amishi Y. Shah1, Thomas Powles2, Maria T. Bourlon3, Cristina Suarez4, Toni K. Choueiri5, Robert J. Motzer6, Saby George7, Elizabeth R. Kessler8, Jens Bedke9, Bernard Escudier10, Joshua Zhang11, Burcin Simsek12, Christian Scheffold13, Andrea B. Apolo14, Mauricio Burotto15
1Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. 2Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Cancer Research UK Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Royal Free National Health Service Trust, London, UK. 3Department of Hemato-Oncology, Urologic Oncology Clinic, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico. 4Department of Medical Oncology, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain. 5Department of Medical Oncology, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 6Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. 7Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA. 8Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA. 9Department of Urology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. 10Department of Medical Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. 11Department of Clinical Research, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA. 12Department of Biostatistics, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA. 13Product Development, Exelixis, Inc., Alameda, CA, USA. 14Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 15Bradford Hill Clinical Research Center, Santiago, Chile


Pembrolizumab (pembro) vs placebo as post nephrectomy adjuvant therapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC): randomized, double-blind, phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 study

Dr. Toni K. Choueiri1, Piotr Tomczak2, Se Hoon Park3, Balaji Venugopal4, Thomas Ferguson5, Yen-Hwa Chang6, Jaroslav Hajek7, Stefan N. Symeonides8, Jae Lyun Lee9, Naveed Sarwar10, Antoine Thiery-Vuillemin11, Marine Gross-Goupil12, Mauricio Mahave13, Naomi Haas14, Piotr Sawrycki15, Todd L. Saretsky16, Rodolfo F. Perini16, Pingye Zhang16, Kentaro Imai16, Jaqueline Willemann-Rogerio16, David Quinn17, Thomas Powles18
1Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA. 2Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland. 3Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. 4Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, U.K, and University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. 5Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia. 6Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. 7Fakultni Nemocnice Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic. 8Edinburgh Cancer Centre and University of Edinburgh, UK. 9Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. 10Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK. 11University Hospital Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France. 12University Hospital Bordeaux-Hôpital Saint-André, Bordeaux, France. 13Fundacion Arturo Lopez Perez FALP, Santiago, Chile. 14Abramson Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 15Wojewodzki Szpital Zespolony im. L. Rydygiera w Toruniu, Torun, Poland. 16Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. 17USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 18Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust, University College London, London, UK


Nivolumab/ipilimumab with or without CBM588 in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a randomized phase Ib study and in-depth analysis of gut microbiome evolution

Nazli Dizman MD1, Luis Meza MD2, Paulo G. Bergerot MD2, Tanya B. Dorff MD2, Yung Lyou MD, PhD2, Paul H. Frankel PhD3, Yujie Cui MSc3, Valerie Mira MPH2, Marian Llamas2, JoAnn Hsu BSc2, Zeynep Busra Zengin MD2, Nicholas Salgia BSc2, Sabrina Salgia BSc2, Jasnoor Malhotra MD2, Neal Chawla MD2, Alex Chehraz-Raffle MD2, Ramya Muddasani DO2, John Gillece MSc4, Lauren Reining MD4, Jeffrey Trent MD4, Motomichi Takahashi PhD5, Kentaro Oka PhD5, Seiya Higashi5, Sarah K. Highlander PhD4, Sumanta K. Pal MD2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital. 2Department of Medical Oncology, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA. 3Department of Biostatistics, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA. 4The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, AZ. 5Miyarisan Pharmaceuticals, Japan


Integrative Clinical and Molecular Characterization of Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma

Ziad Bakouny MD, MSc1, Ananthan Sadagopan1, Praful Ravi1, Nebiyou Metaferia1, Jiao Li1, Shatha AbuHammad1, Stephen Tang1, Stephen Tang1, Thomas Denize2, Emma Garner1, Xin Gao3, David Braun1, Laure Hirsch1, John Steinharter1, Gabrielle Bouchard1, Emily Walton2, Destiny West2, Chris Labaki1, Shaan Dudani4, Chun-Loo Gan5, Vidyalakshmi Sethunath1, Filipe Carvalho6, Alma Imamovic1, Cora Ricker1, Natalie Vokes1, Jackson Nyman1, Jacob Berchuck1, Jihye Park1, Michelle Hirsch2, Rizwan Haq1, Gwo-Shu Lee1, Bradley McGregor1, Steven Chang6, Adam Feldman7, Catherine Wu1, David McDermott8, Daniel Heng5, Sabina Signoretti2, Eliezer Van Allen1, Toni Choueiri1, Srinivas Viswanathan MD, PhD1
1Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA. 2Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 3Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA. 4Division of Medical Oncology/Hematology, William Osler Health System, Brampton, ON, Canada. 5Division of Medical Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, University of Calgary, AB, Canada. 6Division of Urology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 7Department of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 8Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA


Generation of an in vivo CRISPR/Cas9-based ccRCC model using AAV

Dr. Laura Stransky PhD1, Dr. Laura Schmidt PhD2, Dr. Wenhua Gao PhD1, Dr. Marston Linehan MD2, Dr. William Kaelin MD1
1Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 2National Cancer Institute