Oncology
When to Perform Preoperative Bone Scintigraphy for Kidney Cancer Staging: Indications for Preoperative Bone Scintigraphy
To identify an objective and reproducible strategy for preoperative staging bone scintigraphy (BS) in patients diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), because in the absence of objective criteria, the decision to perform preoperative BS remains a subjective practice.Prediction of Competing Mortality for Decision-making Between Surgery or Observation in Elderly Patients With T1 Kidney Cancer
To predict the risk of cancer-specific mortality (CSM) or other-cause mortality (OCM) for T1 kidney cancer patients, aiming at identifying those who would benefit from surgery over observation.
