%0 Journal Article %T Renal cell carcinoma: the oncological outcome is not the only endpoint %A Alberto Martini %A Ashok K. Hemal %A Ketan K. Badani %A Shivaram Cumarasamy %J Archive of "Translational Andrology and Urology". %D 2019 %R 10.21037/tau.2019.01.01 %X The primary focus for patients diagnosed with cancer is the prognosis in terms of survival. Equally, surgeons are generally concerned about the treatment approach of the tumor, the recurrence-free survival and cancer-specific survival. However, there is a balance between surgical cure of the renal mass and renal functional preservation %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511688/