Renal cell carcinoma is the sixth most common cancer in the usa 1 where incidence rates have continued to rise in recent years 2 the prognosis of patients after a rcc diagnosis may follow an heterogeneous course on which the 5 year cancer specific survival rates may be as low as 38 in those patients with locally advanced or node positive disease 3 4.
Renal cell carcinoma survival after nephrectomy.
1 for patients with locally advanced tumors 5 year cancer specific survival rates after nephrectomy decrease to 20 to 53 1 and once rcc has metastasized the 5 year survival rate is less than 10.
No significant differences in response rate or progression free survival were observed.
The median overall survival was 18 4 months in the sunitinib alone group and 13 9 months in the nephrectomy sunitinib group.
Survival rates for renal cell carcinoma are sometimes based on the percentage.
Chances of survival are much better when the disease is diagnosed before it has spread and can be removed surgically.
Conditional survival after nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma rcc.
Adverse events were as anticipated in each group.
Changes in future survival probability over time.