Wilms Tumor and Other Childhood Kidney Tumors Treatment (PDQ®): Health Professional Version

Excerpt

This PDQ cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the treatment of Wilms tumor and other childhood kidney tumors. It is intended as a resource to inform and assist clinicians in the care of their patients. It does not provide formal guidelines or recommendations for making health care decisions.

This summary is reviewed regularly and updated as necessary by the PDQ Pediatric Treatment Editorial Board, which is editorially independent of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The summary reflects an independent review of the literature and does not represent a policy statement of NCI or the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Keywords: anaplastic sarcoma of the kidney; childhood renal cell carcinoma; clear cell sarcoma of the kidney; congenital mesoblastic nephroma; cystic partially differentiated nephroblastoma; multilocular cystic nephroma; nephroblastomatosis; primary renal myoepithelial carcinoma; primary renal synovial sarcoma; rhabdoid tumor of the kidney; Wilms tumor.