Elevated Pre-operative C-reactive Protein Is Associated with Renal Functional Decline and Non-Cancer Mortality in Surgically Treated Renal Cell Carcinoma: Analysis from the INternational Marker Consortium for Renal Cancer [INMARC].

To investigate association of pre-treatment C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and non-cancer mortality (NCM) in a cohort of patients undergoing surgery for localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Retrospective multicenter analysis of patients surgically treated for clinical stages 1-2 RCC from 2006-17, excluding all cases of cancer-specific mortality.