Lifestyle and Clinical Factors in a Nationwide Stage III and IV Renal Cell Carcinoma Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim was to investigate whether patient-related or clinical risk factors present at the diagnosis of advanced stage renal cell carcinoma (RCC) had an impact on the overall mortality, cancer-specific mortality, and recurrence risk in a national cohort.

Methods

Patients registered with stage III and IV RCC in the Danish Renal Cancer Database (DaRenCa) in 2014-2016 were included in the study and followed up until recurrence or death. We conducted a Cox Proportional Hazard Model to examine the association between several variables and the development of RCC. These variables included BMI, hypertension, smoking status, symptoms at diagnosis, performance status, multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussion, surgical margin, and primary metastasis. Separate analyses were pe

SUBMITTER: Azawi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10526437 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature