Carcinoma
Studies from Mayo Clinic reveal new findings on carcinoma
Published in Medical Device Business Week, June 18th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "To evaluate patients with multiple ipsilateral renal tumours and to determine outcomes of nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) and radical nephrectomy (RN), as the treatment of unrecognized sporadic multifocal tumours at NSS presents a surgical dilemma. In all, 104 patients had surgery between 1970 and 2003 for sporadic multiple ipsilateral renal tumours, at least one of which was renal cell carcinoma (RCC); 114 were treated with RN and 26 with NSS."
"Cancer-specific survival (CSS) was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. More patients treated with NSS had a solitary kidney than those undergoing RN (six, 23%, vs none, P<...
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