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Patients with advanced and metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with targeted therapy in the Czech Republic: twenty cancer centres, six agents, one database

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The incidence and mortality of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in the Czech Republic are among the highest in the world. Several targeted agents have been recently approved for the treatment of advanced/metastatic RCC. Objective: Presentation of a national clinical database for monitoring and assessment of patients with advanced/metastatic RCC treated with targeted therapy. The RenIS (RENal Information System, http://renis.registry.cz) registry is a non-interventional post-registration database of epidemiological and clinical data of patients with RCC treated with targeted therapies in the Czech Republic. Twenty cancer centres eligible for targeted therapy administration participate in the project. As of November 2011, six agents were approved and reimbursed from public health insurance, including bevacizumab, everolimus, pazopanib, sorafenib, sunitinib, and temsirolimus. As of 10 October 2011, 1,541 patients with valid records were entered into the database. Comparison with population-based data from the Czech National Cancer Registry revealed that RCC patients treated with targeted therapy are significantly younger (median age at diagnosis 59 vs. 66 years). Most RenIS registry patients were treated with sorafenib and sunitinib, many patients sequentially with both agents. Over 10 % of patients were also treated with everolimus in the second or third line. Progression-free survival times achieved were comparable to phase III clinical trials. The RenIS registry has become an important tool and source of information for the management of cancer care and clinical practice, providing comprehensive data on monitoring and assessment of RCC targeted therapy on a national level.

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Acknowledgments

Authors would like to thank all cancer centres involved in data collection for the RenIS registry: University Hospital Brno—Otakar Bednařík, MD; St. Ann’s University Hospital, Brno—Jana Katolická, MD, PhD; Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno—prof. Rostislav Vyzula, MD, PhD; Hospital České Budějovice—Václav Janovský, MD, Alena Šináklová, MD; University Hospital Hradec Králové—prof. Jiří Petera, MD, PhD, assoc.prof. Josef Dvořák, MD, PhD; Hospital Chomutov—Martina Chodacká, MD; Hospital Jihlava—Lubomír Slavíček, MD, Věra Benešová, MD; Regional Hospital Liberec—Jiří Bartoš, MD, MBA, Věra Hejzlarová, MD; Hospital and Health Centre in Nový Jičín—assoc. prof. Renata Soumarová, MD, PhD, MBA, Josef Gruna, MD; University Hospital Olomouc—prof. Bohuslav Melichar, MD, PhD, Petr Beneš, MD, PhD; University Hospital Ostrava—David Feltl, MD, PhD, Martina Vybíralová, MD; Regional Hospital Pardubice—assoc. prof. Jaroslav Vaňásek, MD, PhD, Iveta Kolářová, MD; University Hospital Plzeň—assoc. prof. Jindřich Fínek, MD, PhD, Vladimíra Arnetová, MD; Hospital Na Bulovce, Prague—Vladimíra Stáhalová, MD; Hospital Na Homolce, Prague—Martin Šafanda, MD, PhD; General University Hospital in Prague—prof. Luboš Petruželka, MD, PhD; University Hospital Motol, Prague—Jana Prausová, MD, PhD, Stanislav Batko, MD; Thomayer Hospital, Prague—prof. Jitka Abrahámová, MD, PhD; Masaryk Hospital in Usti nad Labem—Milan Lysý, MD, David Šulc, MD; T. Baťa Regional Hospital, Zlín—Milan Kohoutek, MD, Alena Jakšičová, MD. This work was supported by the Project MZ0MOU2005 of the Czech Ministry of Health. The RenIS registry is supported by research grants from Novartis, Pfizer, Bayer, Roche, and GlaxoSmithKline.

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  1. Department of Complex Oncology Care, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Žlutý kopec 7, 656 53, Brno, Czech Republic

    Alexandr Poprach, Radek Lakomý, Rostislav Vyzula & Marek Svoboda

  2. Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Masaryk University, Kamenice 126/3, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Zbyněk Bortlíček, Petr Brabec, Ladislav Dušek & Jakub Gregor

  3. Department of Oncology, First Faculty of Medicine, Thomayer Hospital and Charles University, Vídeňská 800, 140 59, Prague, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Büchler

  4. Department of Oncology, Palacký University Medical School and Teaching Hospital Olomouc, I. P. Pavlova 185/6, 779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Bohuslav Melichar

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Poprach, A., Bortlíček, Z., Büchler, T. et al. Patients with advanced and metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with targeted therapy in the Czech Republic: twenty cancer centres, six agents, one database. Med Oncol 29, 3314–3320 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12032-012-0286-9

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