YOUNG AGE IS AN INDEPENDENT PROGNOSTIC FACTOR FOR SURVIVAL OF SPORADIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA

Young adults with RCC were more likely to have unfavorable histological features and a higher incidence of lymph node metastases than an older cohort of adults. Despite these differences on multivariate analysis young patients had improved disease-specific and recurrence-free survival following treatment. Whether age specific differences in host-tumor interaction exist in patients with RCC deserves further study.