Performance Status and Cytoreductive Nephrectomy: Redefining Management in Patients With Poor Performance.

The article focuses on the study of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) on the effect of cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) on the performance status (PS) or well-being of patients with kidney cancer. It notes that the outcome of the review of the demography and medical accounts of 418 patients who had CN from 1989 to 2006 were correlated to ECOG PS. Younger patients were noted to have higher tumor classification and generally shows anemia and bone metastases (BM).