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Risk of bilateral renal cell cancer.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 10 Aug 2009
Wiklund Fredrik, Tretli Steinar, Choueiri Toni K, Signoretti Sabina, Fall Katja, Adami Hans-Olov
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: The risk of developing bilateral kidney cancer has not been adequately defined in any large, population-based study with long-term follow-up to our knowledge. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We estimated the risk of metachronous bilateral renal cell cancer in patients diagnosed with unilateral kidney cancer, as recorded in the nationwide cancer registries of Norway and Sweden. Altogether 28,642 patients were...
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