Surgery to remove only the tumor preferable to removing entire kidney News-Medical.net After an average of five years, 25 percent of patients who had a so-called partial nephrectomy, in which only the tumor and a small margin of healthy tissue is removed, had died, while 42 percent of patients who had radical nephrectomy, ... Kidney Cancer Patients Fare Better With Tumor Removal Only Long-term Survival Following Partial vs Radical Nephrectomy Among Older ... |