Margue, Gaëlle https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5311-1597
Debard, Candice
Klein, Clément
Doumerc, Nicolas
Bensalah, Karim
Dariane, Charles
Bruyere, Franck
Rizk, Jérome
Lebacle, Cédric
Bigot, Pierre
De la Taille, Alexandre
Lang, Hervé
Mejean, Arnaud
Roupret, Morgan
Bernhard, Jean-Christophe
Article History
Received: 29 December 2025
Accepted: 13 February 2026
First Online: 9 March 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and based on prospectively collected data from the French national kidney cancer registry UroCCR (NCT03293563). The registry and the present analysis were approved by the appropriate institutional and national regulatory authorities, including the French Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, CNIL; authorization number DR-2022-091) and the Institutional Review Board (Comité de Protection des Personnes Sud-Ouest et Outre-Mer III; reference DC-2012/108).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to inclusion in the UroCCR registry, authorizing the collection and use of their clinical data for research purposes.