Short Communications
2014 June
Volume : 2 Issue : 2


Current trends in renal cell carcinoma

Bhardwaj Lalit, Gopichand M

Pdf Page Numbers :- 125-127

Bhardwaj Lalit1,* and Gopichand M1

 

1 Department of Urology, Krishna Institute of Medical sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

 

*Corresponding author: Dr. Bhardwaj Lalit, Department of Urology, Krishna Institute of Medical sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India. Email: drlb78@yahoo.co.in

 

Received 12 February 2014; Revised 20 March 2014; Accepted 29 March 2014

 

Citation: Bhardwaj Lalit, Gopichand M. Current trends in renal cell carcinoma. J Med Sci Res 2014; 2(2):125-127. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2014/2-022  

 

Copyright: © 2014 Bhardwaj Lalit et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 

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Abstract

Kidney cancer is one of the most lethal urological malignancies and surgery was the only treatment of modality a decade ago. Open radical nephrectomy was the procedure of choice for long time for all malignant masses. The increase use of imaging modalities has led to diagnose small renal masses and most of the tumors are incidentally detected now a day[1]. Depending on tumor size, age and associated co-morbidities, various management options has evolved like AS, minimal invasive ablation, nephron sparing surgery, laparoscopic and robotic nephrectomy, open radical nephrectomy. Role of renal biopsy has become proven in many circumstances. Targeted systemic chemotherapy has shown improved progression free survival in metastatic RCC.

 

Keywords: RCC-Renal cell carcinoma; Radical nephrectomy; Partial nephrectomy; Laparoscopic nephrectomy; Robotic surgery; Chemotherapy; Renal biopsy

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