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Leonard J. Appleman, MD, PhD, on Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Pazopanib vs Placebo After Metastasectomy

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Leonard J. Appleman, MD, PhD, of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, discusses phase III trial findings that showed a trend toward worse survival with pazopanib in patients with metastatic kidney cancer who exhibited no evidence of disease following metastasectomy (Abstract 4502).



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