According to a study by researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, patients who are medicare beneficiaries and who have early-stage kidney cancer experienced a lower overall mortality when they had a partial nephrectomy than when they underwent radical surgery.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that after a median of 62 months, patients who had the partial nephrectomy had a lower all-cause mortality rate (25.3 percent) than those who underwent radical surgery (41.5 percent).
The researchers acknowledged that partial nephrectomy is technically a challenging procedure with more complications than presented with radical surgery, but that the figures regarding overall survival between the two in kidney cancer were manifest, even when they were adjusted for possible confounders.
The authors concluded that, "By demonstrating that patients treated with partial nephrectomy live longer than those treated with radical nephrectomy, these data suggest that ... partial nephrectomy is the best treatment for many patients with small, localized kidney cancers."
Source: MedPage Today
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