Premium
Clinically Unrecognized, Silent Renal‐Cell Carcinoma in Elderly Cancer Patients
Author(s) -
Hajdu Steven I.,
Berg John W.,
Foote Frank W.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1970.tb01328.x
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , renal cell carcinoma , cancer , autopsy , carcinoma , disease , pathology , clear cell carcinoma , oncology
A bstract Forty clinically unrecognized, silent renal‐cell carcinomas, found at autopsy in 8,921 cancer patients, are reported. A clinicopathologic study led to the following conclusions: Clinically unrecognized, silent renal‐cell carcinoma is predominantly a disease of elderly men. Renal‐cell carcinomas may range from small and clinically asymptomatic to large and clinically symptomatic, but the size of the carcinoma is not a reliable criterion of potential aggressiveness. In elderly cancer patients with unusual symptoms, every attempt should be made to rule out a possible additional primary renal neoplasm before attributing the new symptoms to the known cancer.