
David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the ongoing, randomized, phase 1/2 LITESPARK-024 trial in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, highlighting the eligibility criteria for this clinical trial.

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David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the ongoing, randomized, phase 1/2 LITESPARK-024 trial in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, highlighting the eligibility criteria for this clinical trial.

David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the randomized phase 2 LITESPARK-024 trial (NCT05468697).

David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the research behind combining VEGF inhibitors with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors in renal cell carcinoma treatment.

David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the toxicities associated with immunotherapy combinations in renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the use of PD-1 inhibitors in combination with VEGF inhibitors and CTLA-4 inhibitors in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, discusses the combination of VEGF TKIs and PD-1 inhibitors in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the promise of single-agent pembrolizumab in advanced non–clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses single-agent versus combination immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses single-agent pembrolizumab in the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses an analysis of the CheckMate-214 study in advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses novel immunotherapy combinations for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses immunotherapy as a standard of care for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses nivolumab (Opdivo) as a single-agent for the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

David F. McDermott, MD, director, Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs, Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the role of VEGF-targeted therapy in renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the immune-related toxicities for patients receiving checkpoint inhibitors for treatment of their renal cell carcinoma.

David F. McDermott, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the future of immunotherapies in the treatment of patients with kidney cancer.

David F. McDermott, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses lessons learned from the recent IMmotion150 trial in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The open-label, randomized study examined the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab (Tecentriq) alone or in combination with bevacizumab (Avastin) versus sunitinib (Sutent) in patients with untreated advanced RCC.

David F. McDermott, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the recent IMmotion150 trial in Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC).

David F. McDermott, MD, Director of Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs, Hematology and Oncology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the combination of VEGF plus PD-1 in renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

David F. McDermott, MD, director of the Biologic Therapy Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses the findings of the phase III CheckMate-025 trial of nivolumab (Opdivo) versus everolimus (Afinitor) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC).


David F. McDermott, MD, associate professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, staff physician, director, Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs, Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses long-term follow-up results of treatment with nivolumab (Opdivo) for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

David F. McDermott, MD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the potential of targeting PD-1 or PD-L1 in patients with kidney cancer

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