HEALTH :: KIDNEY SURGERY safe in select ELDERLY PATIENTS
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Surgery appears to be a safe option in certain elderly patients with kidney cancer, German researchers have found.
However, it “,certainly depends on a patient’s health, fitness and wishes,” lead investigator Dr. Frederik C. Roos told Reuters Health. “If the patient wants to undergo surgery, according to our results, it is a possible and safe procedure in carefully selected cases.”
Roos and colleagues at Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz reviewed the records of 1,625 patients who had surgery at their institution because of solid tumors suspected to be renal cell carcinoma — the most common form of kidney cancer.
In all, 62 of the patients were more than 80 years old; 45 had radical nephrectomy (surgical removal of the kidney) and the remaining 17 had a less radical surgery called “nephron-sparing” surgery. Nephrons are key units both anatomically and functionally of the kidney that filter waste products from the blood and forms urine.
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