Genetic Testing to Select Therapy for the Treatment of Advanced or Metastatic Kidney Cancer, OPTIC RCC Study

The film gives the main points. The full list below is copied from the registry; the study team makes the final decision.

• Age18 Years to no maximum
• SexAll
• Healthy volunteersNo

You may be able to join if

• Histological confirmation of RCC with a clear cell component
• Advanced (not amenable to curative surgery or radiation therapy) or metastatic (American Joint Committee on Cancer [AJCC] stage IV) RCC
• Patient can comprehend and sign the study informed consent form
• Male or female >= 18 years of age at the time of informed consent
• Karnofsky performance status (KPS) of >= 70%
• No prior systemic therapy for RCC in the neoadjuvant, adjuvant or metastatic setting
• At least one measurable lesion as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1
• Tumor tissue for ribonucleic acid (RNA)-sequencing (tumor tissue from bony metastasis is not suitable but a soft tissue component around bone is acceptable)
• Screening tissue consent- Patient must be assigned to either Cluster 1/2 or 4/5. Patients assigned to cluster 3/6/7 will not be eligible for the treatment study
• Adequate renal function defined as calculated creatinine clearance >= 30 mL/min per the Cockcroft and Gault formula
• Adequate liver function defined by:
• Total bilirubin =< 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) except for unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia of Gilbert's syndrome
• Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 3 x ULN
• Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have a negative serum pregnancy test during screening and prior to receiving first dose of protocol-indicated treatment
• Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) is defined as any female who has experienced menarche who has not undergone surgical sterilization (hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy) or is not postmenopausal
• Menopause is defined clinically as 12 months of amenorrhea in a woman over 45 years of age in the absence of other biological or physiological causes

You cannot join if

• =< 14 days before first dose of protocol-indicated treatment:
• Major surgery requiring general anesthesia
• Inadequately controlled hypertension (systolic blood pressure [SBP] > 160/90 mmHg)
• Anti-hypertensive medications are permitted.
• Active infection requiring infusional treatment
• Has preexisting gastrointestinal or non-gastrointestinal fistula
• Proteinuria > 2 g/ 24 hours (hrs)
• If patient has 1+ protein on urine dipstick then a 24 hr urine collection is required
• Non-healing wounds on any part of the body (for patients assigned to Cabo/Nivo only)
• Known clinically significant active bleeding including hemoptysis
• Inability to swallow oral medication; or the presence of a poorly controlled gastrointestinal disorder that could significantly affect the absorption of oral study drug (for patients assigned to Cabo/Nivo only) - e.g., Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, chronic diarrhea (defined as > 4 loose stools per day), malabsorption, or bowel obstruction
• Significant cardiovascular disease or condition including:
• Class III or IV cardiovascular disease according to the New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional criteria
• Unstable angina pectoris (i.e., last episode =< 3 months prior to first dose of protocol-indicated treatment)
• Myocardial infarction within 3 months prior to starting treatment
• Subjects with central nervous system (CNS) metastases are eligible after they have completed local therapy (e.g., whole brain radiation therapy [WBRT], surgery or radiosurgery)
• Any condition requiring systemic treatment with either systemic corticosteroids (> 10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent daily) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days prior to initiating protocol-indicated treatment
• In the absence of active autoimmune disease: Subjects are permitted the use of corticosteroids with minimal systemic absorption (e.g., topical, ocular, intra-articular, intranasal, and inhalational), =< 10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent daily; and physiologic replacement doses of systemic corticosteroids =< 10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent daily (e.g., hormone replacement therapy needed in patients with hypophysitis)

This is how the treatment is meant to work. Whether it helps, and how safe it is, is what this trial is testing.

Treatments listed in the registry

• Cabozantinib (Drug): Given PO
• Ipilimumab (Biological): Given IV
• Nivolumab (Biological): Given IV

Non Randomized · Parallel · masking: None

Main goals

• Overall response rate (ORR) (Arm 1) (Up to 4 years)
• Overall response rate (Arm 2) (Up to 4 years)

Other goals

• Progression free survival
• Depth of response > 80%
• Incidence of immune-related adverse events

Planned enrollment: 54 (estimated).

• City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
• Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orange, California
• University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
• Vanderbilt University/Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee
• University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

Site status as of Oct 30, 2026. Check the live record before contacting a site.

• ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05361720

Registry record reviewed as fetched Oct 30, 2026, last updated by the sponsor Aug 18, 2026. Public record; not medical advice.