Email this article CURRENT TREATMENTS FOR UROTHELIAL CANCER OF THE UPPER URINARY TRACT
- Authors: Afonin S.V.1, Volkova M.I.1, Matveev V.B.1
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- N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
- Issue: Vol 6, No 2 (2010)
- Pages: 84-90
- Section: REVIEW
- Published: 30.06.2010
- URL: https://oncourology.abvpress.ru/oncur/article/view/159
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17650/1726-9776-2010-6-2-84-90
- ID: 159
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Abstract
TNephroureterectomy is by right considered to be the gold standard for treatment in patients with urothelial cancer of the upper urinary tract. Nevertheless, various surgical treatments are now being intensively developed and introduced into clinical practice and a possibility of using adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy is also being studied. The review summarizes data on various methods of treatment, its efficiency, long-term results and prognosis.
About the authors
S. V. Afonin
N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
Author for correspondence.
Email: asv2931@yandex.ru
Russian Federation
M. I. Volkova
N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
Email: asv2931@yandex.ru
Russian Federation
V. B. Matveev
N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
Email: asv2931@yandex.ru
Russian Federation
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