Renal malignancies in the elderly

Gomez, Juan Montero; Avisrror, Manuel Urrutia; Hernandez, Juan Corrales

doi:10.1016/b978-0-407-00395-8.50023-5

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“…One patient had a co-incidental sigmoid colon polyp with a weakly positive faecal occult blood test, but no other patient had a documented source of genito-urinary or gastro-intestinal blood loss. The reported incidence of anaemia in renal cell carcinoma ranges from 24 to 64% [10][11][12], but generally is associated with a normochromic, normocytic blood film [4,13]. In up to one-third of cases the anaemia may be hypochromic and microcytic and not explained by haematuria or other causes of blood loss [11,14].…”

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“…Renal cell carcinoma is a tumour derived from renal tubular epithelium [1] and accounts for 3% of all malignancies [2,3], with a peak incidence in the seventh decade [4]. As a retroperitoneal tumour, it can become large before clinical detection [5], and many present in a non-specific manner which may lead to diagnosis by physicians and geriatricians [6,7].…”

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The presentation, treatment and outcome of renal cell carcinoma in old age

Doherty

Rüfer²,

Bartholomew³

et al. 1999

Age and Ageing

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Objective: to review clinical presentation and outcome of patients with a diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma at a district general hospital and assess whether older patients were more likely to present in a non-specific manner or receive more conservative management and whether their survival was less favourable. Subjects and methods: 39 patients presenting with a diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma between 1987 and 1995 were identified from hospital activity analysis data and histopathology records. We divided the subjects into young patients (< 69 years: n = 27) and elderly patients (>70 years: n = 10), and made a retrospective analysis of clinical features, laboratory results, pathology, staging, treatment and survival from hospital records. Results: anaemia, hypertension and weight loss were common clinical features in both young and elderly groups. The prevalence of non-urological symptoms did not differ between study groups. Anaemia was frequently microcytic and hypochromic. Hypertension was present in 46% of patients and one-third of these were newly diagnosed. In 19% of patients with renal cell carcinoma, the diagnosis was made incidentally while imaging for other indications. Elderly patients were as likely to receive surgical treatment as younger patients. Survival differed with stage but not age. Conclusions: neither clinical presentation, management nor survival differed between the young and elderly subjects. Renal cell carcinoma should be considered in elderly patients with systemic features such as malaise or weight loss associated with anaemia, hypertension and raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

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