According to a latest study, for patients suffering from kidney cancer, it is always better to get the damaged part of kidney removed rather than getting the entire organ, because in later cases, the patients are then more likely to have renal complications and poorer health after surgical treatment.

This review is a result of one of the largest conducted studies regarding full vs. partial organ removal for kidney cancer patients. During the study Ronald Moore, who is known as a professor and a practicing surgeon in the Department of Surgery, holder of the Mr. Lube Chair in Uro-Oncology and a senior scholar funded by Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions, along with some of his colleagues analyzed patient outcomes of 1,151 kidney cancer cases in Alberta during the period of 2002 to 2007. A provincial database was maintained to analyze the records of these patients to fetch accurate outcomes.

During the research they found that among the kidney cancer patients, around 80 percent underwent surgery to get their entire kidney removed. And all these patients were more prone of developing serious chronic kidney diseases and kidney failure.

However, within three years of post-surgery, it was revealed that 12.5 percent of patients with entire kidney removal had renal complication whereas only 7percent of patients with partial organ removed faced such complications.

There was a significant difference noted in the outcomes of this study.