Ridwan Alam, MD, a urology resident at Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, discusses the abstract, “Investigation of race and associated socioeconomic factors in survival outcomes for patients with renal cell carcinoma,” which he presented at the 2022 AUA Annual Meeting (abstract PD18-12).
Race-based adjustment of eGFR: Current opinions and impact on urologic oncology
January 19th 2023“As other factors such as access to care, socioeconomic conditions, patient preference, and other unknown confounders might have played a role in the observed disparity, it is still unclear whether overestimating the postoperative eGFR of Black patients contributes to the lower use of nephron-sparing approaches in this population,” the authors write.
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