This is an optional activity.
After completing the Units in this Module, you should try to:
- If possible, identify a patient who is to have a radical nephrectomy and follow their pathway from referral to hospital, to admission for surgery, to discharge.
- Attend the multidisciplinary team meeting to experience the pathway to determination of specific operation to be performed.
- Attend the operating theatre to observe the operation. This will develop your understanding of how other organs may be affected/injured during the surgery.
- Find out where the nearest specialist cancer centre is for your region.
- Try to find out how many radical nephrectomies are performed in either your hospital/your specialist cancer centre annually.
- List the possible complications associated with renal cancer surgery.