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Dr. Zhang on frontline treatment selection factors in metastatic kidney cancer

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“We use a lot of clinical characteristics, but I’m hopeful we will start to go into more molecular typing and gene signatures,” says Tian Zhang, MD.

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      Tian Zhang, MD, associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, discusses factors she uses in the clinic to decide among the evolving treatment options in the frontline setting for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

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