Elevated preoperative C‐reactive protein is associated with renal functional decline and non‐cancer mortality in surgically treated renal cell carcinoma: analysis from the INternational Marker Consortium for Renal Cancer (INMARC)

To investigate association of preoperative C-reactive protein (CRP) and non-cancer mortality (NCM) in a cohort of patients undergoing surgery for localised renal cell carcinoma (RCC).Retrospective multicentre analysis of patients surgically treated for clinical Stage 1-2 RCC from 2006 to 2017, excluding all cases of cancer-specific mortality. Descriptive analyses were obtained between the pre-treatment normal-CRP (≤5 mg/L) and elevated-CRP (>5...