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Adjuvant IL-2 offers survival benefit in metastatic RCC

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Andrew Bowser

Orlando, FL-In patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, adjuvant interleukin-2 (IL-2) after cytoreductive nephrectomy appears to offer a superior survival benefit over nephrectomy followed by interferon alpha-2b, according to a report presented here at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.

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