Editorial comment

Oncologists have a great need to estimate treatment outcomes for their patients in order to counsel them properly, plan follow-up imaging to detect and treat recurrences, and refer for additional treatment and clinical trials. In the early surgical experience with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), tumors were large, often palpable, and with symptoms of bleeding and pain. Radical nephrectomy was the only effective treatment. Staging systems (Robson, TMN, AJCC, IUAC) described the local extent of the tumor, involvement of regional lymph nodes, and the presence of distant metastases to generate survival distributions in surgical series.

Source: Urology - January 31, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Paul Russo Source Type: research