[Partial nephrectomy in renal cancer: a new standard?].

Rising renal cell carcinoma incidence is in relationship with early diagnosis during radiological exams. Radical nephrectomy was the gold standard treatment for 30 years. Partial nephrectomy is nowadays a validated therapeutic option for renal cell carcinoma up to 7 cm with comparable oncological results associated with better life quality and survival.

[Trends in urology].

The systemic treatment of kidney cancers is promising regarding the first results of the inhibiting molecules of the angiogenesis. Projections in research are encouraging for more specific and sensitive markers of the prostate cancer. For this last the intermittent hormonotherapy improves the quality of life of the patients.

[Urology].

This reviewed publication summarized the newly therapeutic procedures in different urological pathologies. In the treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), laser KTP with high power is now becoming a standard. For small benign testicle lesions, the surgical biopsy under echographic control avoid radical orchidectomy.