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Outcomes of Multi-disciplinary Management of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is associated with a poor prognosis. It is traditionally a treatment-resistant disease necessitating multi-modal treatment and close follow-up. We herein report a case of mRCC in a patient who was managed closely by a multi-disciplinary team and still retained...

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Autores principales: Yan, Michael, Gregg, Richard, Mahmud, Aamer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763103
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5901
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description Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is associated with a poor prognosis. It is traditionally a treatment-resistant disease necessitating multi-modal treatment and close follow-up. We herein report a case of mRCC in a patient who was managed closely by a multi-disciplinary team and still retained a very good performance status and treatment response three years after diagnosis. We highlight the importance of close monitoring, switching systemic therapies at progression, early palliative radiotherapy, and patient education in controlling disease burden and maintaining quality of life in patients with mRCC.
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spelling pubmed-68507462019-11-24 Outcomes of Multi-disciplinary Management of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Yan, Michael Gregg, Richard Mahmud, Aamer Cureus Medical Physics Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is associated with a poor prognosis. It is traditionally a treatment-resistant disease necessitating multi-modal treatment and close follow-up. We herein report a case of mRCC in a patient who was managed closely by a multi-disciplinary team and still retained a very good performance status and treatment response three years after diagnosis. We highlight the importance of close monitoring, switching systemic therapies at progression, early palliative radiotherapy, and patient education in controlling disease burden and maintaining quality of life in patients with mRCC. Cureus 2019-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6850746/ /pubmed/31763103 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5901 Text en Copyright © 2019, Yan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850746/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5901
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