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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(7):569-570; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk114
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

CORRESPONDENCE

Re: Rising Incidence of Small Renal Masses: A Need to Reassess Treatment Effect

Wong-Ho Chow, W. Marston Linehan, Susan S. Devesa

Affiliations of authors: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (WHC, SSD), and Center for Cancer Research (WML), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

Correspondence to: Wong-Ho Chow, PhD, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, EPS 8100, Bethesda, MD 20892-7240 (e-mail: choww@mail.nih.gov).

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The trends in mortality rates according to tumor size for renal cell cancer (RCC) patients that were calculated by Hollingsworth et al. (1) are misleading because most RCC patients survive beyond the year that they are diagnosed. The prolonged survival means that the mortality rates for patients diagnosed during a confined period (1983–2002) should be low during the initial years and increase over time as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Response: Re: Rising Incidence of Small Renal Masses: A Need to Reassess Treatment Effect
John M. Hollingsworth, David C. Miller, Stephanie Daignault, and Brent K. Hollenbeck
J Natl Cancer Inst 2007 99: 570-571. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]