Predictive Biomarkers of Overall Survival in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Treated with IFNα ± Bevacizumab: Results from CALGB 90206 (Alliance).
Andrew B NixonSusan HalabiYingmiao LiuMark D StarrJohn C BradyIvo ShterevBin LuoHerbert I HurwitzPhillip G FebboBrian I RiniHimisha BeltranEric J SmallMichael J MorrisDaniel J GeorgePublished in: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (2022)
IL6 and HGF are potential predictive biomarkers of OS benefit from BEV + IFN in patients with mRCC. The model based on key biological and clinical factors demonstrated predictive efficacy for OS. These markers warrant further validation in future anti-VEGF and immunotherapy in mRCC trials. See related commentaries by Mishkin and Kohn, p. 2722 and George and Bertagnolli, p. 2725.