U.S., July 23 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07077447) titled 'The Danish Bladder Cancer Group 23 Study - A Nordic Study on Cancer in the Upper Urinary Tract' on July 13.
Brief Summary: This is a study looking at how patients with a rare type of cancer in the pelvis and ureter of the kidney - called upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) - is currently treated. The gold standard treatment of UTUC is the complete removal of the kidney, renal pelvis and ureter. The use of kidney-sparing surgery, which preserves the kidney while treating the cancer, was only considered for patients who were too frail to undergo kidney removal, had a solitary functioning kidney, or suffered from severe chr...