[Renal cancer in elderly: clinical and histopathological findings].
OBJECTIVE
to evaluate the clinical and pathological characteristics of the CCR in our series of tumors, analyzing its impact in the group of age greater than 65 years.


METHODS
300 patients with renal adenocarcinoma (CCR) were studied. In 252, ploidy pattern of DNA and pathologic characteristics of the surgical pieces were done. According to the criteria of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics, the patients were divided in two groups based on the age, greater and smaller of 65 years. The clinical and pathologic characteristics were compared between both groups.


RESULTS
103 of the 300 patients (33.3%) were included in the geriatric group. We did not found differences between both groups comparing stage, tumoral volume or treatment realized, but found differences in DNA ploidy pattern, recurrences and survey.


CONCLUSIONS
The RCC in the elderly has a few clinical and pathological characteristics similar to the rest of patients in our series. Nevertheless differences exist in the average and actuarial survival, which is minor in the patient of more than 65 years, cause the percentage of detected aneuploidies and number of recurrences in not confined tumors in this group of age.
Gómez Pérez
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Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia. luisgope@hotmail.com
Budía Alba
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Delgado Oliva
F J
FJ
Ruiz Cerdá
J L
JL
Bonillo García
M A
MA
Jiménez Cruz
J F
JF
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies