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. 2019 Feb;31(1):29–48. doi: 10.21147/j.issn.1000-9604.2019.01.02

14.

Strategy for metastatic or unresectable clear-cell RCC therapy (clinical trial preferred in any of the following situations)

Treatment status Stratification Level I
recommendation
Level II
recommendation
Level III
recommendation
RCC, renal cell cancer.
First-line
treatment
Low and
medium risk
Sunitinib (1A evidence)
Pazopanib (1A evidence)
Sorafenib (2A evidence)
Axitinib (2A evidence)
Cabozantinib (2A evidence)
bevacizumab + IFN (1A vidence)
IFN-α (2A evidence)
Large dose of IL-2 (2A evidence)
High risk Clinical trial Temsirolimus (1A evidence)
Cabozantinib (2A evidence)
Sunitinib (2A evidence)
Pazopanib
Sorafenib
Axitinib
Second-
line treatment
TKI failed Axitinib (1A evidence)
Everolimus (1A evidence)
Cabozantinib (1A evidence)
Nivolumab (1A evidence)
Lenvatinib + everolimus (2A evidence)
sorafenib (2A evidence)
Sunitinib (2A evidence)
Pazopanib
Sorafenib +
bevacizumab
Cytokine
failure
Axitinib (1B evidence)
Sorafenib (1A evidence)
Sunitinib (1B evidence)
Pazopanib (1B evidence)
Clinical trial Cabozantinib
Lenvatinib +
everolimus
Third-
line treatment
Clinical trial Sorafenib (2A evidence)
Everolimus (2A evidence)
Nivolumab (2A evidence)
Cabozantinib (2A evidence)
sorafenib +
bevacizum