Thanks to advanced imaging technologies, we are identifying tumors of the kidney earlier and earlier all the time. Whereas many doctors remove the entire kidney for a small tumor, advanced robotic surgery now allows us to remove just the part of the kidney with a malignancy, leaving the rest of the normal kidney behind. It makes perfect sense, that the more blood-filtering ability your body has, the better. In fact, several studies now show that a partial, rather than a total, nephrectomy not only leads to better overall survival, but cancer-specific survival also matches that of a total nephrectomy.
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