Skip to main content
An official website of the United States government

89Zr-DFO-Atezolizumab PET/CT for the Diagnosis of Locally Advanced or Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer

Trial Status: active

This trial studies how well 89Zr-DFO-atezolizumab positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) works for identifying patients with kidney cancer that has spread to nearby tissues or lymph nodes (locally advanced) or has spread to other places in the body (metastatic) and to predict how the patients respond to certain immunotherapy. An immunotherapy medication called atezolizumab is tagged with zirconium-89, a radioactive atom (which is also known as an isotope). The zirconium-89 isotope is attached to atezolizumab with desferrioxamine (DFO) and this combined product is called 89Zr-DFO-atezolizumab. 89Zr-DFO-atezolizumab attaches itself to a protein on the surface of cancer cells called PD-L1. 89Zr-DFO-atezolizumab PET/CT may help doctors to know what PD-L1 levels are in the body and in cancerous tumors and how this predicts, in some patients, response to immunotherapies, and this may also help doctors to identify patients who may benefit from immunotherapy treatments.