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Targeted therapy has survival benefit for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma. However, intolerability often causes discontinuation of treatment. Therefore management of adverse events and maintenance of treatment duration as long as possible are absolutely essential for patient care. Hypertension is a common adverse event of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) inhibitors. General symptoms such as fatigue or asthenia and gastrointestinal disorders including diarrhea, nausea, and anorexia are also frequently produced by VEGFR inhibitors as well as other targeted agents under development. Development of a new drug which does not cause any severe adverse event may be an ultimate strategy against adverse events of current targeted agents. Here we review the adverse-event profiles of targeted therapies being developed, including axitinib, tivozanib, dovitinib, AS1411, vorinostat, AMG386, BMS-936558, carfilzomib, IMA901, and AGS-003, for renal cell carcinoma.
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PMID:[Adverse event profile of new targeted agents for renal cell carcinoma]. 2325 96

Whether S-1 could replace 5-Fluorouracil (5-Fu) or not in the treatment of advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancer (including advanced gastric cancer [AGS] and metastatic colorectal cancer [mCRC]) in Asian patients has been controversial. This meta-analysis was performed to compare the activity, efficacy and toxicity of S-1-based versus 5-Fu-based chemotherapy in those Asian patients. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were identified by electronic search of Pubmed. Relevant abstracts were manually searched to identify relevant trials. A total of 2182 patients from eight RCTs were included, and our results demonstrated that S-1-based chemotherapy significantly improved overall survival (OS) (hazard ratio [HR], 0.87; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.77-1.00) and overall response rate (ORR) (odds ratio [OR], 1.72; 95% CI, 1.09-2.70), but no significant progression-free survival (PFS) benefit was found between arms (HR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.72-1.06). Subgroup analyses revealed that S-1-based chemotherapy significantly improved OS and ORR in subgroups of patients with non-platinum containing regimens (P = 0.041; P = 0.034) and patients with no prior chemotherapy history (P = 0.025; P = 0.016). Statistically significant improvements of PFS and ORR in the S-1-based chemotherapy were observed in the subgroup of patients with AGC (P < 0.001; P = 0.005). S-1-based chemotherapy was characterized by significantly higher incidences of diarrhea, fatigue and thrombocytopenia, and a lower incidence of nausea. This analysis provided strong evidence for survival benefits of S-1, and S-1-based chemotherapy could be considered to replace 5-Fu-based therapy for the treatment of advanced GI cancer in Asian patients.
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PMID:Survival benefit from S-1 as compared to Fluorouracil in Asian patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer: a meta-analysis. 2497 63