Treatment of Advanced Kidney Cancer and Drugs ?
Question by Mike S: Treatment of advanced kidney cancer and drugs ?
http://www.kidneycancer.org/knowledge/learn/therapies-for-advanced-kidney-cancer
What are the news drugs?
Your odds of survival ?
Best answer:
Answer by SteveA8
Nexavar, Sutent, Rad 001 are some of the latest, though I am not sure if Rad 001 is FDA approved yet. There are also some new drugs in stage 1 of investigation. I have been fighting the disease for 9 years now.
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