Chronic Kidney Disease Is More Common in Locally Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

To retrospectively evaluate clinical predictors of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients to identify associations between patient- and tumor-specific factors with poorer renal function. CKD and RCC are interrelated, with 26%-44% of RCC patients having concomitant CKD at diagnosis.Institutional registries from Spectrum Health and University of California, San Diego, were queried for preoperative glomerular filtration...