Renal Cell Carcinoma Survival After Nephrectomy
Renal cell carcinoma is the sixth most common cancer in the usa 1 where incidence rates have continued to rise in recent years 2 the prognosis of patients after a rcc diagnosis may follow an heterogeneous course on which the 5 year cancer specific survival rates may be as low as 38 in those patients with locally advanced or node positive disease 3 4.
Renal cell carcinoma survival after nephrectomy. Changes in future survival probability over time. No significant differences in response rate or progression free survival were observed. Adverse events were as anticipated in each group. Bianchi m 1 becker a hansen j trinh qd tian z abdollah f briganti a shariat sf perrotte p montorsi f karakiewicz pi sun m.
Chances of survival are much better when the disease is diagnosed before it has spread and can be removed surgically. The median overall survival was 18 4 months in the sunitinib alone group and 13 9 months in the nephrectomy sunitinib group. Conditional survival after nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma rcc. Organ confined disease pathologic stage pt1 2 confers the best prognosis with 5 year cancer specific survival rates after nephrectomy ranging from 71 to 97.