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Kidney cancer

  • Robert J. Motzer
  • , Neeraj Agarwal
  • , Clair Beard
  • , Graeme B. Bolger
  • , Barry Boston
  • , Michael A. Carducci
  • , Toni K. Choueiri
  • , Robert A. Figlin
  • , Mayer Fishman
  • , Steven L. Hancock
  • , Gary R. Hudes
  • , Eric Jonasch
  • , Anne Kessinger
  • , Timothy M. Kuzel
  • , Paul H. Lange
  • , Ellis G. Levine
  • , Kim A. Margolin
  • , M. Dror Michaelson
  • , Thomas Olencki
  • , Roberto Pili
  • Bruce G. Redman, Cary N. Robertson, Lawrence H. Schwartz, Joel Sheinfeld, Jue Wang
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • University of Utah
  • Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • St. Jude Children Research Hospital
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • City of Hope National Med Center
  • Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Stanford University
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Nebraska Medicine
  • Northwestern University
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  • Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Duke University

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Abstract

In 2008, an estimated 54,390 Americans were diagnosed with and 13,010 died of kidney cancer in the United States. The rate of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has increased 2% per year for the past 65 years. Smoking and obesity are among the risk factors for RCC development, with tumor grade, local extent of the tumor, presence of regional nodal metastases, and evidence of metastatic disease at presentation the most important prognostic determinants of 5-year survival. These guidelines discuss evaluation, staging, treatment, and management after treatment. Important updates for 2009 include the addition of everolimus as second-line therapy after a tyrosine kinase inhibitor and the change to a category 1 recommendation for bevaciumab and interferon for first-line therapy for clear cell histologies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)618-630
Number of pages13
JournalJNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Volume7
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2009

Keywords

  • Clear cell tumors
  • Kidney disease
  • NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • Nephrectomy
  • Renal cell carcinoma

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