Abstract:
Renal cell cancer (RCC) is the common urological cancer with an incidence of approxi-mate 5 to 10 per 100 000. There was no established second- line therapy, after failure of the cytokine-based therapy on the patients with metastatic renal cell cancer. With a progress of the studies on hypox-ia- inducible factor (HIF)- related protein, study of the molecular targeted therapy for metastatic RCC has become a hot spot. Some of the promising therapeutics investigated in this research include , vata-lanib (PTK787), sunitinib (Sutent, SU11248), AG- 013736, sorafenib (BAY 43- 9006), thalidomide and temsirolimus (CCI- 779).