Renal Medullary Carcinoma Treatment Options for Newly Diagnosed Patients

Renal Medullary Carcinoma Treatment Options for Newly Diagnosed Patients

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Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) treatments are starting to expand, but where do things stand? Expert Dr. Nizar Tannir provides an update about current RMC treatment options and his perspective about RMC research and hope for emerging treatments.

Dr. Nizar Tannir is a Professor in the Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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“…patients need to be well-informed and empowered, trust their physicians and work together to, on the road, to recovery and cure.”

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Transcript:

Cora:

Yes. How do you work with your RMC patients to make treatment decisions? What should RMC patients consider when deciding on treatments?

Dr. Tannir:

It’s always a partnership, Cora, this applies actually not just for RMC, not just between a physician, an oncologist like myself, and a patient with RMC. It is the partnership between every patient and every and their physician. They are treating oncologists, whether it’s RMC or any other kidney cancer type, or any cancer type, or any other health issue. It’s a partnership built on trust, built on knowledge and so the role of the physician is to explain to the patient their diagnosis, the prognosis, the treatment options, give them the facts. Patients need to be informed that’s why we have the informed consent when we offer a therapy. Informed consent is based on the physician or medical provider providing the information about the treatment, what benefits are, what potential complications or adverse events we call these. And the patient has to be aware of these things and they need to participate in their care.

And the decision-making is joint, it’s partnership. That’s the empowerment that we as physicians should give to our patients. They should be empowered in their care, empowered to know their disease, and they should know their disease very deeply. And only then that relationship is cemented through the trust, mutual trust, then the physician will offer the patient the treatment or treatments, there may be more than one treatment and it’s our role to go through these treatments and look at pros and cons. This treatment will offer you this, the treatment will offer you that. I think I can’t underscore more the importance of clinical trials. Clinical trials are important the treatment we are testing today may be experimental today, they may be the standard of care tomorrow.

So it’s important for individuals to see that participating in a clinical trial is not an experiment. Just we’re using subjects or human beings as guinea pigs it’s not, it is for their benefit because the results, the findings of the trials could directly or indirectly help those patients who participate in trials, but also help future patients. So participating in trials will not only help them, but help others after them. My activation tip is patients need to be well-informed and empowered, trust their physicians and work together to, on the road, to recovery and cure. 


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