Minimally invasive surgery linked to lower major complication risk, reduced length of stay, decreased transfusion rate.

A new analysis of U.S. military personnel included Black, White, and Hispanic adults newly diagnosed with primary stage I-III RCC between 1998 and 2014. Hispanic and White patients had similar rates ...

Show More Hiten D. Patel and Mohamad E. Allaf, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Jose A. Karam, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. Despite the ...

In a partial nephrectomy, a portion of your kidney is surgically removed, sparing some function in that kidney. This surgery is most often performed in instances of a small tumor localized to the ...

Pre-surgical immunotherapy combinations reduce tumor size and help kill cancer cells at the time of surgery for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), according to findings from a ...

Cardiac transplant status is not significantly associated with adverse in-hospital outcomes in patients with kidney cancer ...

A Canadian study recently assessed 709 patients with intermediate- and high-risk synchronous mRCC with or without sarcomatoid features. Most patients had clear cell histology and were treated with ...

January 10, 2008 — Most patients found to have a small kidney tumor, between 2 and 4 cm in size, have the whole kidney removed. However, new findings suggest that for younger patients a partial ...

Keytruda after nephrectomy improved disease-free survival rates in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma regardless of disease risk or stage. Patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower rates of adverse outcomes were linked to higher technical skill Surgeons with higher scores had lower ...