Editing AUA: Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma (2023) (section)

=== UrologySchool.com Summary ===

* '''<span style="color:#ff0000">If low-risk</span>'''
** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Favorable</span>'''
*** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Tumor ablation (preferred)</span>'''
** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Unfavorable</span>''' 
*** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Tumor ablation (optional)</span>'''
*** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Surgical removal (radical nephroureterectomy or segmental ureterectomy)</span>'''
** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">If low-risk and complete endoscopic ablation not feasible, chemoablation (in-situ tissue destruction) with mitomycin containing reverse thermal gel can be a treatment alternative</span>'''
* '''<span style="color:#ff0000">If high-risk</span>'''
** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Favorable</span>'''
*** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Surgical removal</span>''' 
*** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Tumor ablation (optional)</span>'''
**** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Select patients who have low-volume tumors or cannot undergo RNU</span>'''
** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Unfavorable</span>'''
*** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Surgical removal</span>''' 
**'''<span style="color:#ff0000">For surgically eligible patients with HR and unfavorable LR cancers endoscopically confirmed as confined to the lower ureter in a functional renal unit, distal ureterectomy with ureteral reimplant is the preferred treatment</span>'''