ESOU 2021: Must Read Papers in 2020: Renal Cancer
(UroToday.com) The final session at the 2021 European Association of Urology (EAU) Section of Oncological Urology (ESOU) Virtual Annual Meeting included a “must-read papers of 2020” session, with Dr. Riccardo Campi presenting the key papers in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Dr. Campi took an exhaustive approach to assess renal cancer studies published in 2020, searching 17 journals, of which there were 949 records and 298 related to RCC. These papers were then screened and 74 studies were evaluated among seven research topics in kidney cancer. From there he selected must-read papers based on (i) originality, (ii) quality, (iii) clinical implications, and (iv) research implications. The majority of kidney cancer studies published in 2020 included localized kidney cancer (41.3%) and systemic therapies for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (20.8%):