Open AccessCytoreductive nephrectomy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Author(s) -
Rajendra B Nerli
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of the scientific society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7127
pISSN - 0974-5009
DOI - 10.4103/0974-5009.115472
Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , renal cell carcinoma , malignancy , disease , kidney cancer , cancer , kidney , metastasis , urology , oncology
Renal cell carcinoma is the most lethal urologic malignancy. Up to 30% of patients with kidney cancer have metastatic disease and 30% of those treated for local or locally advanced disease progress to metastases. Radical nephrectomy is the standard treatment for the management of nondisseminated kidney cancer, but the role of cytoreductive nephrectomy in patients with metastatic disease is controversial