SUTENT® In The First Line Treatment Of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Primary outcomes

1. Number of Participants With Categorical Best Overall Response

   Time frame: Start of Treatment up through 12 Months or Early Discontinuation

   Best overall reponse based on investigator's disease status assessment. Complete response(CR)=disappearance of all target lesions.Partial Response(PR)=≥30% decrease in sum of longest dimensions of lesions taking as reference baseline sum longest dimensions.Progressive disease(PD)=≥20% increase in sum of longest dimensions of lesions taking as a reference smallest sum of longest dimensions since treatment start or appearance of ≥1 new lesions. Stable disease(SD)=neither shrinkage for PR or increase for PD taking as reference smallest sum of longest dimensions since treatment start.

2. Number of Participants With Objective Response

   Time frame: 12 Months or Early Discontinuation

   Objective response (CR or PR) based on investigator's overall objective tumor assessment at final visit according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST). CR was defined as disappearance of all target lesions. PR was defined as a ≥30% decrease in the sum of the longest dimensions of the target lesions taking as a reference the baseline sum longest dimensions.

3. Time to Progression (TTP)

   Time frame: Start of Treatment up through 12 Months or Early Discontinuation

   TTP = time from date of first dose to date of first recording of PD. Participants who did not have a recorded PD at any of the visits or at Overall Objective Tumor Assessment at 12 months were treated as censored at the date of the last available follow up for disease response/tumor assessment.

4. Number of Participants With Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status

   Time frame: Baseline, 3, 6, 9 and 12 Months

   ECOG performance status measured on 6 point scale to assess participant's performance status. 0=Fully active, able to carry on all pre-disease activities without restriction; 1=Restricted in physically strenuous activity, ambulatory and able to carry out light or sedentary work; 2=Ambulatory (>50% of waking hours), capable of all self care, unable to carry out any work activities; 3=Capable of only limited self care, confined to bed/chair >50% of waking hours; 4=Completely disabled, cannot carry on any self care, totally confined to bed/chair; 5=Dead. 0=Best status, 5=Worst status

5. European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) Scores

   Time frame: Baseline, 3, 6, 9 and 12 Months

   EORTC QLQ-C30: 5 functional scales (physical, role, cognitive, emotional, and social), a global health status/quality of life (QoL) scale, 3 symptom scales (nausea and vomiting, pain, fatigue) and 6 single items (dyspnea, insomnia, appetite loss, constipation, diarrhea and financial difficulties). All scales and single-item measures range=0 to 100. High score for a functional scale=high/healthy level of functioning. High score for global health status/QoL=high QoL. High score for symptom scale/single item=high level of symptomatology/problems