LAPAROSCOPIC RADICAL NEPHRECTOMY Urology Clinic GW Medical Faculty Associates The George Washington University 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 PURPOSE Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy is a minimally invasive technique to remove the entire kidney and surrounding fat that is usually used as a treatment for primary renal tumors. GENERAL INFORMATION Radical nephrectomy or removal of the entire kidney and surrounding fat was traditionally the treatment of choice for most solid renal tumors.
The VQ scan does not hurt. You will feel a prick when the liquid is injected. How long will the test take? A VQ scan will take about 1 hour to complete. A VQ scan is a nuclear medicine exam performed to evaluate the airflow and blood flow in the lungs. The airflow is evaluated by breathing in an oxygen mixture containing a radioactive tracer that a special camera can detect.
The 2008 CTOS poster included data for 1127 patients enrolled in the ongoing worldwide trial. Median Time to Progression (TTP) was 41 weeks, and median Overall Survival (OS) was 75 weeks. This figure is very similar to the 73.9-week OS time for patients in the sunitinib arm of the Phase III trial.NOTE that mutation status information is not available for patients in this worldwide treatment-use trial.atients took 50 mg/day of sunitinib for 4 weeks, followed by 2 weeks without the drug (washout period). This schedule was then selected for use in the Phase II continuation study and in the Phase III study.