Survival in patients with rare subtypes of renal cell carcinoma

• DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410x.2002.02693.x
• Publication Date: 2003-03-11T08:08:27Z
• Authors: M. Grabowski; T. Huzarski; J. Lubinski; A. Sikorski
• Keywords: Sarcomatoid Carcinoma

To evaluate the survival of patients with rare malignant histological subtypes renal cancer.The Heidelberg classification cell carcinoma (RCC) divides tumours into clear (CCC), papillary cancer (PC), chromophobic (ChC) and collecting duct (CDC). Sarcomatoid are in a different subgroup treated as final stage progression. Between 1990 1997, 319 nephrectomies were undertaken because RCC 317 patients. In 42 (13%) pathological findings showed other than CCC; 13 PC was confirmed histologically, nine ChC, 11 mixed type CCC sarcomatoid type, seven tumour four, CDC.One patient two ChC died. The worst prognosis those CDC, CCC-sarcomatoid tumours, all these died.The histopathological differentiation gives additional useful prognostic information.