Combined treatment of renal cancer invading renal vein or vena cava inferior

The outcomes of treatment of 61 renal cancer patients with tumour thrombus in the renal vein or vena cava inferior, having no distant and regional metastases and without tumour invasion of adjacent organs, are presented. After radical surgery patients were treated by whole-body hyperthermia supplemented with hyperglycemia and adriamycin. The 5-year survival in the patients treated by this combined method was significantly higher that that in the patients administered only surgical treatment, and reached to 94% and 27%, respectively (P < 0.001).