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- Five-Year Survival 50 to 65 percent
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- Investigational Postoperative interferon and IL-2 are being evaluated.
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- Stage III
- TNM T3b, N1-3, M0
- The tumor invades the renal vein (T3b, N0, M0), the inferior vena cava (T3b) or regional lymph nodes (T3b, N1-3, M0).
- Approximately 25 to 35 percent of cases are found in Stage III, 60 percent of whom will have micrometastases found at the time of surgery.
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- Standard Treatment Radical nephrectomy.
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- Five-Year Survival 30 to 45 percent
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- Investigational Same as for Stage II.