Open AccessThe Overall Survival Benefit for Patients with T1 Renal Cell Carcinoma after Nephron-Sparing Surgery Depends on Gender and Age
Author(s) -
Elisabeth Liek,
Klaus Elsebach,
Hubert Göbel,
X. Krah,
Andreas W Krautschick-Wilkens,
Josef Schweiger,
Gabriel Steiner,
Thomas Steiner,
Heiko Wunderlich
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
urologia internationalis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.771
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1423-0399
pISSN - 0042-1138
DOI - 10.1159/000486627
Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , renal cell carcinoma , life expectancy , regimen , perioperative , surgery , urology , kidney , population , environmental health
Due to the recommendations in the urological guidelines to perform nephron-sparing surgery in patients with organ-confined renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the customary therapy regimen changed, but it is not well studied yet whether partial nephrectomy (PN) especially in the elderly is beneficial. From 2000 to 2015, 3,592 patients from 7 clinics undergoing surgery in RCC were identified; 2,323 had T1 tumours. We retrospectively compared the overall survival benefit of patients with T1 RCC who underwent either PN or radical nephrectomy (RN) and studied effects of age and gender.