title: [What's new in 2008 in kidney cancer?].
abstract: The most innovating studies presented at the 2008 international conferences in the field of kidney cancer were selected. In localized kidney cancer, contrast-enhanced ultrasonography could be a new diagnostic tool. Many communications dealed with positive surgical margins and their consequences, and predictive factors of chronic kidney disease after nephrectomy. Robot-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy seems to be a safe and effective technique. Mini-invasive treatments are promising. In metastatic kidney cancer, sunitinib was compared to IFN-alpha in first line treatment and survival data are now available. Everolimus could become the new standard after tyrosine kinase inhibitor failure.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Urologie Hôpital Pitié-Salpétrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalo-Universitaire Est, Faculté de médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris VI, Paris, France.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Phé
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rouprêt
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lechevallier
authors.forename: J-J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Patard
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents