Conditions: Kidney Cancer
Keywords: recurrent renal cell cancer stage IV renal cell cancer
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 24
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
RATIONALE: Sunitinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well sunitinib works in treating patients with locally recurrent or metastatic kidney cancer.

Detailed description:
OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* Determine the efficacy of sunitinib malate in patients with locally recurrent or metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma.

OUTLINE: Patients receive oral sunitinib malate once daily on days 1-28. Treatment repeats every 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed at 28 days and every 2 months thereafter.

Arms:
arm 1: The treatment will include Sunitinib malate 50 mg self-administered orally, once daily in the evening, without regard to meals, for 4 consecutive weeks (28 days) followed by 2 weeks (14 days) off, to comprise a complete cycle of 6 weeks.

Interventions: intervention 1: sunitinib malate
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None

Protocol document: