Impact of tumor size on the long-term survival of patients with early stage renal cell cancer

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-54

  Kuczyk, Markus ^a   Wegener, G ^b   Merseburger, A S ^a   Anastasiadis, A ^a   Machtens, S ^b   Zumbragel A ^a   Hartmann, J T ^a   Bokemeyer, C ^a   Jonas, Udo ^b   Stenzl, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical prognosis; Mulitvariate analysis; Renal cell cancer; Tumor size; Univariate analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CAPSULE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEPHRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 20144381073     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-004-0483-z     Document Type: Article

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