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The Role of Nephrectomy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Radical nephrectomy is well established as the standard treatment for localized renal cell carcinoma. Nephrectomy is the only known curative therapy for this tumor. The role of radical nephrectomy in the management of metastatic renal cell carcinoma is controversial and has come under increased scrutiny in the past several years with the development of immunotherapy, which has the potential to cure systemic renal cell carcinoma. Thus, immunotherapy combined with radical nephrectomy has the potential to cure patients with metastatic disease.

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  1. Section of Urologic Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, 44195, Cleveland, OH, USA

    E. A. Klein

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  1. Abteilung Urologie und Poliklinik, Chirurgische Universitätsklinik, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany

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Klein, E.A. (1994). The Role of Nephrectomy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. In: Staehler, G., Pomer, S. (eds) Contemporary Research on Renal Cell Carcinoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78609-9_1

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