Abstract
Fifteen consecutive patients having radical nephrectomy and excision of tumor extension from the inferior vena cava for pathologic Stage 3A renal cell carcinoma were followed up for a minimum of five years. Survival was compared with patients having radical nephrectomy for Stage 2 or Stage 3 renal cell carcinoma in the same time interval. Five-year survival in the Stage 3A group (47%) was similar to that for patients with Stage 2 tumors (54%) and significantly better than Stage 3 patients with positive lymph nodes at surgery (12%). Renal cell carcinoma with venous extension has a reasonable prognosis after surgical excision and warrants an aggressive surgical approach.
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