Category: Kidney Cancer

  • Partial nephrectomy for kidney cancer

    UroToday – Renal Artery Occlusion During Nephron-Sparing Surgery: Retrospective Review of 301 Cases The authors report on 301 patients who underwent nephron sparing surgery for a localized renal tumor. Of these, 181 patients had renal artery occlusion with cold ischemia, while the remaining 120 patients were managed with external compression alone to control hemorrhage. Mean…

  • Positive margins after partial nephrectomy

    UroToday – Positive Surgical Parenchymal Margin After Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Cella: Oncological Outcomes Carcinom Thursday, 15 March 2007 BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) – Positive margins following supposedly curative surgery can be devastating for patient and surgeon alike. The implication that cancer was “left behind” implies a continued biologic threat, although little is known about…

  • PET imaging for renal masses

    UroToday – PET Imaging Identifies Aggressive Kidney Cancers that Require Surgery “Antibody PET could end up changing the standard of care for patients with kidney cancer,” said the study’s senior author, Paul Russo, MD, a urologic cancer surgeon at MSKCC. “The excellent sensitivity and specificity of this tool supports the utility of G250 PET imaging…

  • What are my chances that my kidney tumor is benign?

    UroToday – Incidence of Benign Pathologic Findings at Partial Nephrectomy for Solitary Renal Mass Presumed to be Renal Cell Carcinoma on Preoperative Imaging The authors conclude that there is no reliable indicator of benign pathology preoperatively in solitary renal masses, as all of these were considered to be renal cell carcinoma on preoperative imaging. Overall,…

  • Kidney cancer upstaging is not uncommon

    UroToday – Significant Discrepancy Between Clinical and Pathologic Staging in Renal Cell Carcinoma: “These data suggest that nearly 20% of patients with clinical stage T1 tumors may be upstaged after nephrectomy. The observed differences in recurrence-free survival and disease-specific survival provide additional evidence supporting intact specimen extraction after laparoscopic nephrectomy in cases of suspected malignancy.…

  • New changes to classification of kidney tumors

    I was at a conferenence on Saturday, Current trends in genitourinary malignancies. This was a nice review of the newest advances in prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer. One thing I learned is that with he help of molecular markers, what had been previously diagnosed as sarcomatoid renal cell cancer is actually a high grade transformation…

  • Removing the kidney in advanced kidney cancer

    UroToday – Laparoscopic Cytoreductive Nephrectomy: The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Experience: “Laparoscopic Cytoreductive Nephrectomy: The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Experience Written by Ralph V. Clayman, MD Thursday, 09 November 2006 Laparoscopic Cytoreductive Nephrectomy: The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Experience The paper from MD Anderson shows a shorter hospital stay for these patients…

  • Fatty fishes such as salmon may prevent kidney cancer

    UroToday – Fatty Fish Consumption Associated with Decreased Risk of Renal Cancer in Women This study showed a significant decrease in the incidence of kidney cancer in women who ate fatty fish such as salmon and mackerel. Lean fish did not show this effect. The researchers thought the main factors were the presence of omega…

  • Robotic Kidney removal: Robotic Growth Sep 2006

    Robotic surgery growth chart In September I performed 15 robotic operations. We had a patient that travelled the farthest to date to have surgery at Newark Beth Israel. He came from Italy for a robotic prostatectomy and flew home after 15 days with minimal problems. I also performed 6 kidney operations for cancer. One was…