A Retrospective Real World Analysis Of Sutent In Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma In Community And Academic Centers To Assess The Impact Of Dose Variation On Duration Of Response And Overall Survival

Patterns Of Care Among Australian Cohort Of Patients With Advanced Rrc Receiving Sutent

This is a retrospective, non-interventional study which looks at the cohort of Renal Cell Carcinoma patients in a real life clinical setting and analyses into factors why these patients have been surviving for as long as 3-5 years unlike Clinical study where the survival is around 2 years.

The factors which will be analysed include patient characteristics, dosage and adverse event management and tries to correlate these factors with survival.

A single cohort of 200 patients who are diagnosed with metastatic renal cell carcinoma prior to 1st Jan 2012, and are seen by the medical oncologist at the centers involved with BIOGRID and its affiliated registries. Patients will be identified from the first date of their consultation with the medical oncologist and captured in the electronic database. Consent to use datasets has already been obtained from participating research institutes and hospitals IRB/Ethics Committees

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age >18
• Male or female
• Metastatic renal cell cancer
• First presentation with metastatic disease prior to 1st Jan 2012 since 2006, i.e. between 1st Jan 2006 to 31st Dec 2011

Exclusion Criteria:

• No referral to medical oncologist
• No record available in electronic database