%0 Journal Article %T Valoraci¨®n de factores pron¨®sticos de la supervivencia en una serie de 202 pacientes intervenidos por carcinoma de c¨¦lulas renales %A Ortiz Gorraiz %A M. %A Vicente Prados %A F.J. %A Rosales Leal %A J.L. %A Honrubia V¨ªlchez %A B. %A Mart¨ªnez Morcillo %A A. %A C¨®zar Olmo %A J.M. %A Espejo Maldonado %A E. %A Tallada Bu£¿uel %A M. %J Actas Urol¨®gicas Espa£¿olas %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4321/S0210-48062005000200007 %X objectives: to describe renal cell carcinoma prognostic factors and set up the relationship with survival rates in this neoplasm. likewise we show epidemiologic, clinical, diagnosis and therapeutic facts. material and method: we review 202 patients underwent surgical treatment for renal cell carcinoma and the following features were recorded: gender, age and presenting symptoms, especially incidentally discovered tumors; tumor-related factors like tnm tumor stage, tumor grade and venous involvement; therapy-related recorded were surgical techniques and cytokine-based therapy. results: 60% of the patients showed organ-confined disease, 10% of patients with renal cell carcinoma presented with nodal positive disease and 7% with systemic metastases. 42% of patients presenting incidental tumor, with survival rates substantially better than that for symptomatic patients. 42% of patients with nodal positive disease presented systemic metastases at diagnosis, and 30% at surveillance. systemic metastases portend a particularly poor prognosis for patients with renal cell carcinoma, with 12-months survival rates that 0%. patients with cytokine-related therapy for metastatic disease presented 24-months survival rates that 20%. conclusions: renal cell carcinoma remains a major source of mortality, basically at advanced disease (nodal positive disease or systemic disease), without a clear improvement of survival rates despite the newer therapy modalities. %K renal cell carcinoma %K prognostic factors %K inmunotherapy %K survival rates. %U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0210-48062005000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en