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Compared with radical nephrectomy, nephron-sparing surgery shift serum creatinine downward.
Study demonstrates improved disease-specific and overall survival.
Male gender and older age found to be significantly associated with chronic kidney disease before and surgery.
Only 2% of patients receive it after transurethral resection of bladder tumors, despite guideline recommendations.
New findings have implications for preoperative patient counseling.
Study finds a 1.6 times increased risk, but no association with complications after radical cystectomy or prostatectomy.
Hispanics are 20% less likely to undergo the procedure than whites.
The harms of nephrectomy, however, need to be weighed against the marginal survival benefit for some patients.
Cancer-specific and the cancer-free survival rates were 99% at three and five years.
Risk is threefold greater when compared with partial nephrectomy.
A new immunoassay appears to be a valid screening method for the early detection of kidney cancer.
It is associated with a high technical success rate and a low rate of complications; local recurrence rare.
After a median follow-up of 36 months, 98% of patients had no recurrence of small renal tumors.
Partial nephrectomy may lead to better overall survival and fewer health problems after surgery in patients with kidney tumors.
Communication between the urologist and pathologist is key to arriving at the correct diagnosis, researcher says.
March 28, 2013
Regardless of overall body weight, patients with these additional criteria share a poor prognosis.
Two respected doctors share their thoughts on the preferred method of kidney cancer treatment.
For patients with metastatic disease receiving systemic treatment, a high BMI was found to improve overall survival.
Partial or radical nephrectomy improves patients' survival odds, data show.
Biopsy-proven renal cell carcinoma developed in 35 (0.5%) of 6,827 ESRD patients.
March 12, 2013
Levels of three serum proteins much higher in kidney cancer patients
CKD patients with small renal tumors are nearly two times more likely than those without CKD to under radical nephrectomy.
The survival advantage over men is greatest among women younger than 42 years.
Kidney cancer patients with both hypertension and diabetes are twice as likely to undergo nephron-sparing surgery as those with neither condition.
A new international study has found that everolimus may help successfully shrink AMLs in patients with TSC.
Researchers performed a meta-analysis of data from 20 studies that included 8,420 cases of kidney cancer.
An important controversy in urologic surgery is immediate treatment versus active surveillance for small, low-risk kidney tumors.
The 10-year overall survival rate was 94% for partial nephrectomy compared with 89.7% for radical nephrectomy in patients aged 20-44.
Relative survival rates for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma have not improved significantly in the era of targeted agents.
Final overall survival data from a phase 3 trial reveal no significant difference between tivozanib and sorafenib.
