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Cancer Commentary - Caring About Cancer

September 8th, 2006

Kidney Cancer Radical Surgery: A Risk Factor for Chronic Kidney Disease

Removing the entire kidney is the gold standard for 40 years in the treatment of a single, small tumor in the kidney.
A retrospective study appearing in the September issue of The Lancet Oncology suggests that such practice needs to be re-evaluated.
Urologists at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and their colleagues reported that with advances in […]

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