4584 Background: In a phase III study (NCT00083889), treatment-naïve patients (pts) with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) of all prognostic risk groups were treated with sunitinib or interferon-α (IFN-α). Since sunitinib has become the reference standard of care and serves as the comparator in multiple randomized trials sometimes restricted to prespecified risk groups, a retrospective analysis of outcome according to prognostic group from the phase III study was performed. Methods: Investigator-assessed efficacy data were analyzed for pts based on risk group (International mRCC Database Consortium [IMDC] criteria). The objective was to determine objective response rate (ORR), median progression-free survival (mPFS), and median overall survival (mOS) benchmarks by risk group. Results: Of sunitinib-treated pts, 134 were favorable, 205 were intermediate, and 34 were poor risk. The median sunitinib treatment duration/median number of cycles was 16.7 mo/12 cycles, 11.0 mo/8 cycles and 2.6 mo/2.0 cycles for favorable-, intermediate-, and poor-risk pts, respectively. ORR, PFS, and OS benchmarks for sunitinib-treated pts are shown in the Table. In sunitinib-treated intermediate-risk pts with 1 vs 2 risk factors, respectively: ORR was 43.3% vs 40.8%, mPFS (95% confidence interval [95% CI]) was 11.2 (9.7–13.6) vs 8.5 (5.6–10.7) mo, and mOS (95% CI) was 28.2 (23.0–not estimable) vs 16.3 (13.2–19.4) mo. Conclusions: This retrospective analysis provides ORR, PFS, and OS benchmarks for current and future clinical trial interpretation in mRCC pts with different prognostic risk treated with sunitinib. [Table: see text]