A new tool to predict the aggressiveness of kidney tumors has been recently described by Doctors in Shanghai: the amount of visceral fat in the abdomen. You can’t see visceral fat when you look at a person – it’s all on the inside, surrounding the internal organs. Some people carry more fat on the outside, some on the inside. This is determined …
Small Kidney Tumors: Can Biopsy Guide Treatment?
A group from Michigan has published a paper in the January 2013 edition of The Journal of Urology describing a strategy for using biopsy and size to help assort patients into treatment (surgery) or “active surveillance” groups. Biopsy was used to group tumors into Favorable, Intermediate, and Unfavorable risk groups. The algorithm below shows how this information was combined with …