Assessing the role of race in pathological upstaging of renal cell carcinoma: Results from the National Cancer Database.
Nicholas R SussMatthew J BruhaThomas F MonaghanDennis RobinsViktor FloresChristina W AgudeloMatthew SmithLlewellyn HyacintheBrian K McNeilJeffrey WeissAndrew WinerPublished in: International journal of clinical practice (2020)
The present study of nationally representative data found no clinically significant differences in upstaging risk across individual racial subgroups relative to the overall study sample. Preoperative factors that can be used to predict pT3a-specific tumour upstaging in CT1N0M0 RCC likely persist across different racial groups.