Kidney Cancer

Research

The Mayo Clinic Renal Nephrectomy Registry contains records of all patients who have undergone surgery for renal cell cancer and other solid masses at Mayo Clinic since 1970. Using information from regular follow-up of patients' long-term outcomes, Mayo staff continually updates the registry to track surgeries by surgery type, kidney function, postsurgical complications and overall survival. Registry information helps Mayo Clinic urologists make more confident treatment decisions and better-informed predictions of how a patient may respond to treatment.

The Mayo Clinic Renal Nephrectomy Registry is continually updated and analyzed to address questions such as:

• What is the risk of early complications after radical nephrectomy and partial nephrectomy?
• How do long-term health and survival compare for patients treated with radical nephrectomy and partial nephrectomy?
• What clinical features (such as tumor size or grade) can help predict long-term outcomes?

To find out more about kidney cancer research at Mayo Clinic, visit the Kidney Cancer Research Web page.

Publications

See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic doctors on kidney cancer on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.