2016
Racial disparities in renal cell carcinoma: a single‐payer healthcare experience
Mafolasire A, Yao X, Nawaf C, Suarez‐Sarmiento A, Chow W, Zhao W, Corley D, Hofmann JN, Purdue M, Adeniran AJ, Shuch B. Racial disparities in renal cell carcinoma: a single‐payer healthcare experience. Cancer Medicine 2016, 5: 2101-2108. PMID: 27228559, PMCID: PMC4884637, DOI: 10.1002/cam4.755.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDisease-specific survivalRenal cell carcinomaBlack patientsIndependent predictorsSurgical treatmentWhite patientsCell carcinomaRacial disparitiesKaiser Permanente Northern California systemWorse disease-specific survivalCox proportion hazard modelAdvanced American Joint CommitteePapillary renal cell carcinomaKaplan-Meier methodProportion hazard modelAmerican Joint CommitteeLarger tumor sizeCase-control studyHealthcare systemSingle-payer healthcare systemSingle healthcare systemSignificant racial disparitiesOverall survivalPatient demographicsDifferent comorbidities
2010
Prognostic Impact of Muscular Venous Branch Invasion in Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma Cases
Feifer A, Savage C, Rayala H, Lowrance W, Gotto G, Sprenkle P, Gupta A, Taylor J, Bernstein M, Adeniran A, Tickoo SK, Reuter VE, Russo P. Prognostic Impact of Muscular Venous Branch Invasion in Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma Cases. Journal Of Urology 2010, 185: 37-42. PMID: 21074196, PMCID: PMC3437930, DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.08.084.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRenal vein invasionRenal cell carcinoma casesVein invasionInvasion groupCarcinoma casesCareful pathological assessmentMultivariate Cox modelOverall survival rateAmerican Joint CommitteeCancer (AJCC) staging systemRisk of recurrencePrognostic equivalencePrognostic impactTumor characteristicsAdverse prognosisRadical nephrectomyRecurrence rateVascular invasionStaging systemNephrectomy specimenPathological assessmentCox modelPatientsJoint CommitteeSurvival rate