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Incidence and Outcomes of Delayed Targeted Therapy After Cytoreductive Nephrectomy for Metastatic Renal-Cell Carcinoma: A Nationwide Cancer Registry Study
The National Cancer Data Base was analyzed to evaluate the impact of delaying initiation of targeted therapy (TT) for metastatic renal-cell carcinoma. After correction for various clinicopathologic factors, delayed initiation of TT was not associated with worse overall survival. This finding supports a practice that appears to be commonplace clinically, although is seldom reported in the literature