Metastasis therapies for renal cancer

• Published in: Current opinion in urology Vol. 26; no. 6; p. 566
• Main Authors: Dabestani, Saeed, Marconi, Lorenzo, Bex, Axel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2016
• Subjects: Carcinoma, Renal Cell - secondary; Carcinoma, Renal Cell - surgery; Disease Progression; Disease-Free Survival; Humans; Kidney Neoplasms - mortality; Kidney Neoplasms - pathology; Kidney Neoplasms - surgery; Metastasectomy - adverse effects; Metastasectomy - mortality; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; Survival Analysis; Treatment Outcome

Although novel targeted therapies for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are emerging, metastasectomy still remains the only potentially curable intervention and plays an important role both in disease control, cancer-specific survival (CSS) and overall survival (OS). A systematic review was cond...