The EORTC Intergroup Phase 3 Study Comparing the Oncological Outcome of Elective Nephron-Sparing Surgery and Radical Nephrectomy for Low-Stage Renal Cell Carcinoma
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This chapter summarizes the findings of a notable non-inferiority trial comparing nephron-sparing surgery to radical nephrectomy for small renal masses suspected to be renal cell carcinoma. Overall survival results favored radical nephrectomy and progression-free survival was largely similar. Its findings remain controversial but suggest that the assumed benefits of nephron-sparing surgery over radical nephrectomy based on non-randomized studies may have been overstated and that in many cases both approaches may have similar outcomes.
2004 ◽
Vol 172
(6 Part 1)
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pp. 2483-2483
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2009 ◽
Vol 104
(4)
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pp. 470-475
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