Spontaneous regression of genitourinary cancers.
In genitourinary cancers, spontaneous regression has occurred in few instances and for reasons unknown. Although it cannot be denied that nephrectomy may have promoted regression of distant metastases in some cases, this is an unproved relationship and, in any event, an extremely rare sequence.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D014565:Urogenital Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*