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Radical nephrectomy should be avoided for all tumors 3 cm or less. For renal cancers 2 cm or less partial nephrectomy and thermal ablation are equally effective. For tumors 2.1 to 3 cm partial nephrectomy is better than thermal ablation. We identified significant racial treatment disparities that negatively impact survival in black and Hispanic patients.
Moskowitz et al. (Sat,) studied this question.