Could a One-Time treatment give kidney cancer patients a year off drugs?
NCT ID NCT06770855
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether giving focused radiation or surgery to all visible tumors (both the original kidney tumor and its metastases) can allow people with advanced kidney cancer to stop all cancer treatments for at least a year. Participants must have stable or partially improved disease after at least 6 months of standard immunotherapy. The goal is to see if this approach can delay the need for further therapy.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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About 23 people
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- Expected to start
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Jun 2026
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- Expected to finish
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Sep 2028
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- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (mixed histology acceptable but must have clear cell component) * Metastatic clear cell RCC with 5 or fewer metastases at enrollment (excluding pulmonary nodules \<1.0cm) * Stable disease or partial response as assessed by investigators following at least 6 months of immune checkpoint blockade-based therapy. * Has disease amenable for total consolidative focal therapy (this will be determined by a multidisciplinary team which may include a combination of medical oncologists, urologists, interventional radiologists, and radiation oncologists). * ECOG performance status \< 2 * Must have archival tissue (slide or Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded tissue) preceding prior systemic treatment for comparison to tissue from consolidation * Consolidation surgery and biopsies are strongly encouraged to be within 42 days +/- 7 days of holding systemic therapy. Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects who have progressed during the first 6 months of immune checkpoint-blockade based therapy as determined by study investigator. * Subjects who have a need for urgent focally directed therapy (i.e. symptomatic brain or spinal metastases). Stable spinal metastases resected and/or treated with SBRT in advance of or concurrently with immune checkpoint-blockade based therapy are allowed to participate. * Any female of child-bearing potential who has a positive urine pregnancy test within 72 hours before screening. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required. Participants must be excluded/discontinued from the trial in the event of a positive or borderline positive serum pregnancy test result.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Abramson Cancer Center at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States
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