title: Prognostic factors for renal cell carcinoma.
abstract: Renal cell carcinoma is a relatively uncommon tumour with a widely varying prognosis depending on several tumour and clinical factors. This review discusses these factors and critically appraises their value both as individual markers and when they are incorporated into scoring systems/models or algorithms. Disease stage (assessed pathologically and/or clinically) and performance status have the strongest evidence as helpful individual prognostic markers but a better discrimination is obtained by combining these and adding in various other indices. Prospective validation of such integrated prognostic models will be essential.
authors.affiliation: YCR Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, Weston Park Hospital, Whitham Road, Sheffield S10 2SJ, United Kingdom. debra.furniss@sth.nhs.uk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Furniss
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Harnden
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Royston
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eisen
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Oliver
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Hancock
mesh_terms: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000378:metabolism*; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor