Outcomes of Minimal Invasive vs Open Radical Nephrectomy for the Treatment of Locally Advanced Renal-Cell Carcinoma.

Purpose: We compare oncologic outcomes of minimally invasive and open nephrectomy for locally advanced kidney cancer.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective review of a single-institutional, prospectively maintained database from a National Comprehensive Cancer Network-designated center was conducted. All patients who underwent radical nephrectomy at Roswell Park Cancer Institute with diagnosis of pT3 and pT4 renal-cell carcinoma (RCC) between years 1998 and 2015 were reviewed.

Minimally invasive cytoreductive nephrectomy: a multi-institutional experience.

Purpose: To analyze the functional and oncologic outcomes of minimally invasive cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) in three high-volume cancer centers.

Patients And Methods: Three prospectively maintained, IRB-approved kidney surgery databases were queried from three high-volume cancer centers. All patients who underwent minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic, hand-assisted laparoscopic, or robotic) partial or radical CN with existing measurable extra-renal metastatic disease between May 2001 and May of 2013 were included in this analysis.