The role of lymph‐node dissection in the treatment of upper urinary tract cancer: a multi‐institutional study

Abstract

LN dissection is important for postoperative stratification of patients with UUT cancer because node-positive disease was one of the variables with a significant adverse effect on survival. In addition, the significant difference in survival between the pN0 and pNx groups might indicate a therapeutic benefit of LN dissection, although removing more LNs did not uniformly increase the probability of CSS.