Renal cell carcinoma treatment
AssigneeSchering Corporation
InventorsMary Ellen Ryback, Esther Helen Rose
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Abstract
Methods for treating treatment-naive as well as treatment-experienced patients having RCC to achieve at least a partial tumor response involving administering a therapeutically effective amount of pegylated interferon-alpha, e.g., pegylated interferon alpha-2b as monotherapy or in association with a therapeutically effective amount of IL-2 are disclosed.
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A method of treating a human patient having metastatic renal cell carcinoma which comprises administering to said patient 200 to 250 micrograms of pegylated interferon-alpha-2a once a week for a time period sufficient to effect at least a partial tumor response.
A method of treating a human patient having metastatic renal cell carcinoma which comprises administering to such a patient about 4.5 micrograms/kg to about 9.0 micrograms/kg of pegylated interferon alpha-2b once a week for a time period sufficient to effect at least a partial tumor response.
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