Presumed radically treated renal cell carcinoma--recurrence of the disease and prognostic factors for subsequent survival.

Objective: To gain knowledge about when, where and how metastases after presumed radical treatment for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are detected, and to use this information to establish a follow-up programme for radically treated RCC. Further aims were to establish survival rates, together with identifying prognostic factors influencing survival for different groups of patients after recurrence of the disease.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of 305 pT1-4N0M0/pT1-4NxM0 (clinically N0) tumours treated with nephrectomy was performed.

Renal cell carcinoma: gender difference in incidental detection and cancer-specific survival.

Objective: To look for an increase in the incidental detection of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) over the last two decades and to see if different patterns of healthcare use for men and women have implications for tumour detection and survival.

Material And Methods: We present an historical series of 368 consecutive patients treated with nephrectomy for RCC during the period 1978-2000. The patients were classified according to detection mode (incidental or symptomatic disease), TNM stage and cancer-related death.

[Renal cancer--a retrospective study of 368 patients].

Background: We wanted to evaluate our treatment results for renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of 368 patients operated with nephrectomy between 1978 and 2000 was carried out.

Results: 29% of the renal cell carcinomas were diagnosed incidentally and we observed a significant increase in this respect between the first and second half of the study.

[Postoperative urinary retention].

Background: Retention of urine is a common postoperative problem.

Materials And Methods: We present two patients with postoperative urinary retention. Current opinions on monitoring and treatment are reviewed.