Preoperative serum cystatin-C as a potential biomarker for prognosis of renal cell carcinoma

Abstract

An elevated preoperative Cys-C level was demonstrated to be related with worse survival in patients with RCC. Measuring preoperative serum Cys-C might be a simple way for finding poor prognostic patients and patients with elevated preoperative Cys-C level should be more closely followed up.