Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients diagnosed with a locoregional cancer in the kidney, and with a tumour available for surgical excision, and sufficient performance status for surgery. * Patients with M1 disease, but no evidence of disease after surgery and local treatment of the metastases. * Core needle biopsy-proven renal cell carcinoma - all histologic subtypes acceptable, clinical tumour stage I-IV * Patients 18 years or older * Patients able to understand and sign written informed consent * Scheduled for curative intent resectional surgery (partial or radical nephrectomy) Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with local disease who are not being offered a nephrectomy. * Patients who are unlikely to comply with the protocol (e.g. uncooperative attitude), inability to return for subsequent visits and/or otherwise considered by the Investigator to be unlikely to complete the study