Below the Belt Award

Our study will describe how medications are used across Australia to treat advanced kidney cancer: which drugs, in which order and for how long. We will understand how long people live with these therapies and if there are sequences of treatment that appear to work better. This study has the advantage that it can look at how cancer therapies are used and how effective they are at a population level. Our future aim will be to use this “linkage data” method as the backbone of real-world clinical trials, where ANZUP members in every hospital in Australia can take part, not just those of us lucky to be in hospitals with many research resources. Real world clinical trials make small changes in the way we use standard treatments, and can have big impacts to improve patients’ outcomes.