Renal Cell Carcinoma
Significant differences in outcome exist in different histologic subtypes of RCC
Published in Cancer Weekly, June 24th, 2003
"Our objective was to compare cancer-specific survival and to examine associations with outcome among the histologic subtypes of renal cell carcinoma (RCC)," scientists in the United States report.
"We studied 2385 patients whose first surgery between 1970 and 2000 was a radical nephrectomy for sporadic unilateral RCC. All RCC tumors were classified following the 1997 Union Internationale Contre le Cancer and American Joint Committee on Cancer guidelines," wrote J.C. Cheville and colleagues, Mayo Clinic, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology.
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