Re: Hazem Orabi, Lauren Howard, Christopher L. Amling, et al. Red Blood Cell Distribution Width Is Associated with All-cause Mortality but Not Adverse Cancer-specific Outcomes in Men with Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer Treated with Radical Prostatectomy: Findings Based on a Multicenter Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital Registry. Eur Urol Open Sci 2022;37:106–12

Red blood cell distribution width and renal cell carcinoma: A comparative analysis of peer-reviewed studies

“…The RDW may be biased by several preanalytical variables including time between phlebotomy and analysis, storage temperature, tube type, and transport conditions (e.g. tube transport) [8] . Moreover, since an internationally recognized standard for the RDW does not exist, there is a lack of standardization of the RDW among the different instrumentation manufacturers [9] .…”