Active Surveillance for Risk Stratification of All Small Renal Masses Lacking Predefined Clinical Criteria for Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Despite general indolence of small renal masses and no known adversity from treatment delays, broad usage of active surveillance as a means to risk-stratify patients with small renal masses for more selective treatment has not been studied. We describe outcomes for a novel approach in which active surveillance was recommended to all patients with small renal masses lacking predefined progression criteria for intervention.

Materials and methods

All nondialysis dependent patients with nonmetastatic small renal masses seen by 1 urologist at a comprehensive cancer center during January 2013-September 2017 were managed with active surveillance if standardized progression criteria for intervention were absent, with delayed intervention recommended only upon progression cri

SUBMITTER: Menon AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9036570 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature