EAU Guidelines on Renal Cell Carcinoma: The 2010 Update

✍ Scribed by Börje Ljungberg; Nigel C. Cowan; Damian C. Hanbury; Milan Hora; Markus A. Kuczyk; Axel S. Merseburger; Jean-Jacques Patard; Peter F.A. Mulders; Ioanel C. Sinescu

• Book ID: 113611947
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 342 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0302-2838
• DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2010.06.032

✦ Synopsis

Context and objectives
The European Association of Urology Guideline Group for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has prepared these guidelines to help clinicians assess the current evidence-based management of RCC and to incorporate the present recommendations into daily clinical practice.

Evidence acquisition
The recommendations provided in the current updated guidelines are based on a thorough review of available RCC guidelines and review articles combined with a systematic literature search using Medline and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.

Evidence synthesis
A number of recent prospective randomised studies concerning RCC are now available with a high level of evidence, whereas earlier publications were based on retrospective analyses, including some larger multicentre validation studies, meta-analyses, and well-designed controlled studies.

Conclusions
These guidelines contain information for the treatment of an individual patient according to a current standardised general approach. Updated recommendations concerning diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up can improve the clinical handling of patients with RCC.