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State-of-the-Art Update on Renal Cell Carcinoma

A Conversation With David I. Quinn, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, and With Arie Belldegrun, MD, FACS, and Allan Pantuck, MD, MS, FACS


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David I. Quinn, MBBS, PhD, FRACP

Arie Belldegrun, MD, FACS

Allan Pantuck, MD, MS, FACS

During the course of the 2014 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, The ASCO Post had the opportunity to speak with several of the world’s leading authorities about the state of the art in screening, diagnosis, and treatment for prostate and kidney cancers. In this second installment of a two-part report on genitourinary malignancies, we talk to David I. Quinn, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, Head of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, and Arie Belldefrun, MD, FACS, and Allan Pantuck, MD, MS, FACS, Professors of Urologic Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about the present and future care of the patient with renal cell carcinoma.

Richard J. Boxer, MD, FACS, is Visiting Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), and former Professor of Clinical Urology at the University of Miami. He is also an Associate Editor of The ASCO Post.

 


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