Prognostic significance of symptoms and findings in renal adenocarcinoma.

Abstract

The occurrence of different symptoms and signs and their relation to prognosis were studied in a series of 324 cases of renal adenocarcinoma. The most common symptoms were gross haematuria and loss of weight, but 17% of the patients were asymptomatic at presentation. The incidence of asymptomatic patients had doubled in ten years. Of the symptoms and signs studied in a multivariate survival analysis, only erythrocyte sedimentation rate had prognostic significance independently of other factors.