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Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 2, 119–120 (1 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncponc0116

Defining risk in patients with renal-cell carcinoma

Mekhail TM et al. (2005) Validation and extension of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering prognostic factors model for survival in patients with previously untreated metastatic renal cell carcinoma. J Clin Oncol 23: 832–841 In 2002, Motzer et al. proposed a prognostic model for survival in patients with previously untreated renal-cell carcinoma, based on patient characteristics and biochemical parameters.