Most guidelines still treat indeterminate (Rx) surgical margins after nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) as equivalent to negative (R0) margins, but it is not.

Feb. 19, 2004 — Adjuvant treatment with autologous renal tumor cell vaccine seems to be beneficial in patients with organ-confined renal cell carcinoma, according to the results of a phase III, ...

Part B of the Checkmate 914 trial showed no disease-free survival (DFS) benefit with adjuvant nivolumab monotherapy in patients with localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC) at high risk of recurrence ...

The presence and number of kidney cysts, particularly in the medulla, may be an additional imaging-based biomarker for progressive CKD after radical nephrectomy for kidney cancer. Among patients who ...

Kidney removal, medically known as a nephrectomy, is a major surgical procedure performed to treat kidney disease, cancer, or to enable a healthy individual to donate a kidney. While the operation can ...

Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Model From Baseline Histopathology Adds Prognostic Information for Distant Recurrence Assessment in Hormone Receptor–Positive/Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor ...

The researchers found that preoperative hypertension, dialysis, and steroid use were most common. HealthDay News – Major complications occur in 7.0% of patients undergoing nephrectomy with a diagnosis ...

Indications for nephrectomy (including nephroureterectomy) include renal cell or urethral cancer and benign conditions that lead to a poorly functioning or non-functioning kidney. These benign ...