key articles
Predicting disease progression after nephrectomy for localized renal cell carcinoma
Saturday, 5 July 2008 - Disease progression after nephrectomy for pathologically localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is associated with a significant mortality rate, given the limited efficacy of available treatment regimens for...
Authors: Crispen et al.
Suppression of renal cell carcinoma growth and metastasis with sustained antiangiogenic gene therapy
Wednesday, 2 July 2008 - Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the third most common urologic neoplasm. This aggressive malignancy has proven refractory to conventional treatment options. Antiangiogenic agents have shown early success in...
Authors: Mellon et al.
Metastatic renal cell carcinoma: recent advances and current therapeutic options
Friday, 27 June 2008 - For many years immuno(chemo)therapy has been the only therapeutic option for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Recent advances in understanding the biology and genetics of this malignancy have...
Authors: Schrader et al.
Focal radiofrequency coagulation-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 - HABIB 4X™ is a laparoscopic focal radiofrequency-coagulation (FRFC) device utilized in liver and kidney resections to facilitate dissection while minimizing blood loss. Zeltser et al. (2008) evaluated...
Authors: Zeltser et al.
High-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasialike ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate
Saturday, 21 June 2008 - Most of the prostatic ductal adenocarcinomas of the prostate are characterized by cribriform and/or papillary architecture lined by columnar pseudostratified malignant epithelium. Tavora and Epstein...
Authors: Tavora & Epstein
No improvement in renal cell carcinoma survival
Friday, 20 June 2008 - The increased finding of kidney 'incidentalomas' and more frequent surgery in patients with renal cell cancer (RCC) metastases may have improved survival from the disease. However, recent data on survival...
Authors: Aben et al.
Laparoscopic renal cryoablation: efficacy and complications for larger renal masses
Wednesday, 18 June 2008 - In expanding indications for cryoablation of renal cortical neoplasms, there was an increased morbidity with laparoscopic cryoablation. As such, Lehman et al. (2008) evaluated the single institution...
Authors: Lehman et al.
Update on the medical treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Monday, 16 June 2008 - Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) has long been treated only by immunotherapy with good results only in a small population of patients. In recent years, major improvements in treatment possibilities...
Authors: Ravaud et al.
Impact of Temporal Presentation on Clinical and Pathological Outcomes for Patients with Sporadic Bilateral Renal Masses
Monday, 16 June 2008 - The origin of bilateral renal masses has not been definitively established to date. As limited studies on the genetics of bilateral tumors exist, defining the clinical behavior of these lesions remains...
Authors: Boorjian et al.
Cytological punctures in the diagnosis of renal tumours
Monday, 16 June 2008 - Fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology is under consideration as an auxiliary preoperative diagnostic technique in the diagnosis of renal masses. However, reports for FNA are contradictory with regard to...
Authors: Kummerlin
