More circulating tumor cells may enter the bloodstream after open radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) compared with laparoscopic nephrectomy, according to a small, proof-of-concept ...

Andersen MH et al. (2006) Postoperative pain and convalescence in living kidney donors—laparoscopic versus open donor nephrectomy: a randomized study. Am J Transplant 6: 1438–1443 Kidney transplant ...

Association of chronic co-morbidities with long term survival with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. This abstract ...

The widespread use of standard laparoscopic procedures has been constrained by the technical difficulties presented by patients with PKD who have massively enlarged and cystic kidneys.

Kidneys from live donors are considered more likely to be successful in treating endstage renal disease than those from cadaver donors. The standard technique for retrieving kidneys from live donors ...

Surgical removal is the treatment of choice for kidney tumors detected early. For the growing number of kidney tumors detected early—often before they cause symptoms—surgical removal is the ...

Primary immunotherapy significantly reduced median tumor size and thrombus length and improved tumor thrombus level and mean RENAL score. Immunotherapy led to pathologic downstaging in 25 of 56 cases.

Immunotherapy combinations tended to improve outcomes for patients with metastatic kidney cancer who go on to receive surgery. Pre-surgical immunotherapy combinations reduce tumor size and help kill ...

Kidney transplant donors who undergo laparoscopic surgery have significantly less postoperative pain and more-rapid convalescence than those who undergo traditional open surgery, according to the ...