key articles
Transitional cell carcinomas of the renal pelvis and the ureter
Sunday, 2 November 2008 - Tan et al. (2008) compared the predictive value for 5-year survival of demographic characteristics, pathological grade and stage between upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) of the renal pelvis (RPUC)...
Authors: Tan et al.
Dietary fat and risk of renal cell carcinoma
Saturday, 1 November 2008 - An increased risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has been linked with obesity. However, there is limited information about the contribution of dietary fat and fat-related food groups to RCC risk. A...
Authors: Brock et al.
"Stage, Size, Grade and Necrosis" score for better RCC prediction
Thursday, 30 October 2008 - Ficarra et al. (2008) compared the prognostic accuracy of the two most used integrated staging systems to predict the outcome of patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
The authors...
Author: Ficarra et al.
"Ice-ball" therapy - frozen tumours can avoid kidney failure
Monday, 27 October 2008 - British surgeons at Southmead Hospital are investigating a treatment that freezes tumours in the kidney could boost the body’s ability to fight cancer. As local media report, the team at the Bristol...
Edited by: FGR
Genetic susceptibility to renal cell carcinoma: the role of DNA double-strand break repair pathway
Saturday, 25 October 2008 - Alterations in DNA repair genes have been shown to cause a reduction in host DNA repair capacity and may influence host susceptibility to carcinogenesis. The double-strand break repair is a major...
Authors: Margulis et al.
New therapeutic developments in renal cell cancer
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 - Metastatic renal cell cancer is associated with a poor prognosis and is very resistant to conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy. Progress in the understanding of molecular biology and pathogenesis of...
Authors: Prenen & Awada
Prognostic variables to predict cancer-related death in incidental renal tumours
Monday, 29 September 2008 - In a large multicentre series of incidental renal tumours, Bensalah et al. (2008) identified the key factors that could predict cancer-related deaths, as such tumours have a better outcome than...
Authors: Bensalah et al.
Risk of hypertension and renal dysfunction with an angiogenesis inhibitor sunitinib
Sunday, 28 September 2008 - Sunitinib is a multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), and undergoing evaluation for other...
Authors: Zhu et al.
Single-incision, umbilical laparoscopic versus conventional laparoscopic nephrectomy
Friday, 26 September 2008 - Recent reports have suggested that single-port or single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) is technically feasible. Raman et al. (2008) compared between SILS and conventional laparoscopic...
Authors: Raman et al.
Preoperative prognostic model for patients treated with nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma
Thursday, 25 September 2008 - Currently two pretreatment prognostic models with limited accuracy (65-67%) can be used to predict survival in patients with localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Karakiewicz et al. (2008) developed...
Authors: Karakiewicz et al.
