Trial reportJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2017
Cabozantinib Versus Sunitinib As Initial Targeted Therapy for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma of Poor or Intermediate Risk: The Alliance A031203 CABOSUN Trial.
Trial report in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to 5 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 355 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Phase I/II Study of Pembrolizumab and Cabozantinib in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
caBozantinib in cOllectiNg ductS Renal Cell cArcInoma (BONSAI)
A Phase 2 Open Label Study of CaBozantinib in Patients With Advanced or Unresectable Renal cEll cArcinoma Pretreated With One immunochecKPOint INhibiTor (Anti PD1/PDL1): the BREAKPOINT Trial
"Phase II Study to Evaluate the Activity and Safety of Cabozantinib in Pretreated, Advanced RET-rearranged Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients: CRETA Trial"
A Prospective, Pilot Study of First-line Osimertinib With or Without Savolitinib in de Novo MET Positive, EGFR-mutant NSCLCs (FLOWERS)
Who cites it
355 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 709 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cabozantinib and thromboembolism in patients with cancer: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and retrospective study.Blood advances · 2026Pooled it
- Efficacy of First-Line Treatments for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Bayesian Network Meta-analysis of Objective Response, Progression-Free Survival, and Overall Survival.Targeted oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Cabozantinib in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors for renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Pooled it
- First-line therapy for adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Kidney Cancer, Version 3.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2022Guideline
- Pooled it
- Targeted therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Caring for the caregiver: a systematic review characterising the experience of caregivers of older adults with advanced cancers.ESMO open · 2020Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Phase 3 Trial of Cabozantinib to Treat Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors.The New England journal of medicine · 2025Trial
- Atezolizumab plus cabozantinib versus cabozantinib monotherapy for patients with renal cell carcinoma after progression with previous immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment (CONTACT-03): a multicentre, randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial.Lancet (London, England) · 2023Trial
- A Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Pembrolizumab and Cabozantinib in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma.Cancer research communications · 2023Trial
- Cabozantinib plus Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Renal-Cell Carcinoma.The New England journal of medicine · 2023Trial
- Biomarkers of Angiogenesis and Clinical Outcomes to Cabozantinib and Everolimus in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma from the Phase III METEOR Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2022Trial
- Patient-reported outcomes with first-line nivolumab plus cabozantinib versus sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma treated in CheckMate 9ER: an open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial.The Lancet. Oncology · 2022Trial
- Analysis by region of outcomes for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma treated with cabozantinib or everolimus: a sub-analysis of the METEOR study.Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) · 2022Trial
- Nivolumab plus Cabozantinib versus Sunitinib for Advanced Renal-Cell Carcinoma.The New England journal of medicine · 2021Trial
- Cabozantinib for neurofibromatosis type 1-related plexiform neurofibromas: a phase 2 trial.Nature medicine · 2021Trial
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- Cabozantinib in advanced renal cell carcinoma: A phase II, open-label, single-arm study of Japanese patients.International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association · 2020Trial
295 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Purpose Cabozantinib is an oral potent inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2, MET, and AXL and is a standard second-line therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). This randomized phase II multicenter trial evaluated cabozantinib compared with sunitinib as first-line therapy in patients with mRCC. Patients and Methods Eligible patients had untreated clear cell mRCC and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 to 2 and were intermediate or poor risk per International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium criteria. Patients were randomly assigned at a one-to-one ratio to cabozantinib (60 mg once per day) or sunitinib (50 mg once per day; 4 weeks on, 2 weeks off). Progression-free survival (PFS) was the primary end point. Objective response rate (ORR), overall survival, and safety were secondary end points. Results From July 2013 to April 2015, 157 patients were randomly assigned (cabozantinib, n = 79; sunitinib, n = 78). Compared with sunitinib, cabozantinib treatment significantly increased median PFS (8.2 v 5.6 months) and was associated with a 34% reduction in rate of progression or death (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.46 to 0.95; one-sided P = .012). ORR was 33% (95% CI, 23 to 44) for cabozantinib versus 12% (95% CI, 5.4 to 21) for sunitinib. All-causality grade 3 or 4 adverse events were 67% for cabozantinib and 68% for sunitinib and included diarrhea (cabozantinib, 10% v sunitinib, 11%), fatigue (6% v 15%), hypertension (28% v 22%), palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia (8% v 4%), and hematologic adverse events (3% v 22%). Conclusion Cabozantinib demonstrated a significant clinical benefit in PFS and ORR over standard-of-care sunitinib as first-line therapy in patients with intermediate- or poor-risk mRCC.
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