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Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica 2018 April;70(2):109-25

DOI: 10.23736/S0393-2249.18.03055-2

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language: English

The role of surgery in the management of metastatic kidney cancer: an evidence-based collaborative review

M. Carmen MIR ¹, Surena F. MATIN ², Axel BEX ³, Philippe E. SPIESS ⁴, R. Houston THOMPSON ⁵, Baruch GROB ⁶, Hein van POPPEL ⁷ ✉

¹ Instituto Valenciano de Oncologia Foundation, Valencia, Spain; ² Department of Urology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; ³ Department of Urology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ⁴ Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA; ⁵ Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; ⁶ Division of Urology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA; ⁷ Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

The current manuscript aims to provide an up to date evidence based analysis on the status of surgery in the metastatic renal cell carcinoma setting. It includes the role of surgery in the primary tumor as well as recent perspective on the surgical management of metastatic disease.

KEY WORDS: Cytoreduction surgical procedures - Nephrectomy - Neoplasm metastasis - Metastasectomy - Kidney neoplasms