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Potential Up-Staging Is Not a Reason to Forgo Partial Nephrectomy for RCC
Potential Up-Staging Is Not a Reason to Forgo Partial Nephrectomy for RCC
S London
20100231
2010 Mar 31
Elsevier Global Medical News
Potential Up-Staging Is Not a Reason to Forgo Partial Nephrectomy for RCC
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Mar 31, S London
SAN FRANCISCO (EGMN) - The decision to perform radical nephrectomy instead of partial nephrectomy for clinically early-stage renal cell carcinoma should not be based on concerns that the cancer will have a higher stage or grade on pathology, investigators concluded based on a cohort study. The study population comprised 213 patients who had T1-stage disease preoperatively but were up-staged to pathological T2- or T3-stage disease postoperatively. Neither cancer-specific survival nor overall survival...