1. Impact of hypertension on recurrence and survival of patients with renal cell carcinoma after surgery
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Hiroshi Masuda, Kotaro Otsuka, Kazuhiro Araki, Yukio Naya, Tomonori Kato, Satoko Kojima, Takahito Suyama, Manato Kanesaka, Ayumi Fujimoto, and Kyokushin Hou
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Oncology ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Renal cell carcinoma ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Risk factor ,business ,medicine.disease - Abstract
611 Background: Hypertension (HT) is an established risk factor for developing renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and a relationship between the renin-angiotensin system and RCC has been emphasized. However, information about the impact of HT on treatment outcomes of patients after RCC surgery is limited. The present study aimed to clarify the impact of HT on the recurrence and survival of patients with RCC after surgery. Methods: Relationships between HT and clinical data including treatment outcomes were retrospectively analyzed in 149 patients (male, n = 112; female, n = 37; median age, 63 y; range, 29-86 y at the time of surgery) who underwent surgery between 2010 and 2016 at our hospital. Data were statistically analyzed using JMP version 9.0. Results: During a median follow-up period of 30.9 months, 28 and 16 patients experienced recurrence and died, respectively. Patients (n = 15) with Stage IV RCC were excluded from the analysis of recurrence. Five-year overall (OS) and recurrence-free (RFS) survival rates of the entire cohort were 80.8% and 76.1%, respectively. Kaplan-Meier analysis did not uncover a relationship between HT and OS, but the RFS rate was significantly lower for patients with HT than without HT (P = 0.0468). Tumor stage and the prevalence of proteinuria were significantly higher in the group with HT. The prevalences of vessel invasion (P = 0.0582) and low pre-surgical hemoglobin values (P = 0.0585) tended to be significantly higher for patients with HT. Conclusions: Patients with HT had significantly worse RFS rates, a more advanced stage of disease at the time of surgery, and a tendency towards a higher rate of vessel invasion. Further investigations are warranted to determine how HT promotes cancer progression.
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- 2018