When your oncology team talks about kidney cancer surgery, they often use the medical term "nephrectomy." During this procedure, the surgeon removes part or all of the affected kidney. Preparing for a ...

(HealthDay)—Laparoscopic nephrectomy can be safely performed as outpatient surgery in select patients, according to a study published in the June issue of The Journal of Urology. Nessn H. Azawi, from ...

New results suggests that conservative surgery is not inferior to radical renal surgery or nephrectomy. The latest results from the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) ...

a Mean creatinine after 10 years of follow-up. b Median creatinine after median 24 months of follow-up. NR, not reported. Nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) for renal cell carcinoma has the advantage of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Between 2009 and 2014 in Queensland, Australia, one in three patients whose kidney cancer was managed with ...

Newswise — On Monday, April 27th at 1:00PM EST, the first real-time broadcast of a partial nephrectomy using the newest robotic surgical system will be featured at the American Urological Association ...

Study findings confirm new F.A.S.T. procedure achieves same results as standard robotic partial kidney surgery in much less time - even with complex tumors. Newswise — NEW YORK (August 28, 2012) – An ...

Another trial, Immediate Surgery or Surgery After Sunitinib Malate in Treating Patients With Metastatic Kidney Cancer (SURTIME), has compared upfront cytoreductive nephrectomy prior to targeted ...

The latest results from the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) 30904 study were presented in a plenary session today at the Anniversary EAU Congress, which showed that ...

Warm ischaemia time (WIT) is seemingly the sole variable that surgeons strive to address in minimizing loss of renal function after partial nephrectomy The term 'zero ischaemia' partial nephrectomy ...

Partial nephrectomy preserves renal function in the long term and is currently the preferred standard of care for small renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) Evidence for a beneficial effect of nephron-sparing ...