Radiation boost may extend life in advanced kidney cancer

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with histologically confirmed renal cancer; diagnosed with recurrent or metastatic renal cancer via PET/CT or other whole-body imaging. * Evaluated by the radiation oncology and imaging departments as having at least one lesion amenable to radiation therapy. * Planning to undergo or currently receiving first-line or second-line targeted therapy combined with immunotherapy. * Voluntarily agrees to participate in the study and signs an informed consent form. * Male or female, aged ≥18 years (inclusive). * Expected survival of ≥12 weeks. * At least one measurable lesion as per the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1. * European Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1. * Adequate cardiac, bone marrow, liver, and renal function. * Willing and able to comply with the study procedures and follow-up schedule. Exclusion Criteria: * Extensive, multiple metastases; * Presence of central nervous system metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. * Toxicity from previous treatments not yet recovered to grade 0-1 (excluding grade 2 alopecia); * Other severe, uncontrollable co-morbid conditions that could affect protocol compliance or confound interpretation of results, including active opportunistic or severe progressive infections, uncontrolled diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension, cardiovascular diseases (defined as New York Heart Association Class III or IV heart failure, second-degree or higher heart block, myocardial infarction within the last 12 months, unstable arrhythmias or angina, stroke within the last 6 months), or pulmonary diseases (interstitial pneumonia, obstructive pulmonary disease, and symptomatic bronchospasm history), deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism within the last 6 months; * Diagnosed with other malignancies within 5 years prior to enrollment, except: * Localized low-risk prostate cancer (defined as stage ≤T2b, Gleason score ≤7, and PSA ≤20ng/mL at diagnosis, who have undergone curative treatment with no recurrence of prostate-specific antigen); * Malignancies treated with a curative intent that are considered cured, including but not limited to adequately treated thyroid cancer, cervical carcinoma in situ, basal or squamous cell skin cancer, or ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast treated with surgery; * Pregnant or breastfeeding women; * Positive HIV test result; * Active hepatitis B or C infection; * Active tuberculosis; * Any other conditions, metabolic abnormalities, physical examination or laboratory findings that in the investigator's judgment might indicate an unsuitability for the study drug, could interfere with the interpretation of study results, or place the patient at high risk if they participate in the study; * Estimated insufficient compliance with the clinical study.