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Modeling Spontaneous Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC) in Mice Following Nephrectomy
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Surgery in advanced and metastatic renal cell carcinoma
1James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
Current Opinion in Urology
|October 14, 2006
Abstract:
Curative surgery in more advanced renal cell carcinoma is limited to solitary metastases or regional disease. Response to systemic immunotherapy continues to be reported; however, most responses are limited and not durable. Only randomized, prospective clinical trials will prove the efficacy of systemic therapy.
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