Pancreatic metastases from renal cell carcinoma: The state of the art

Table 2 Prognostic factors for risk group stratification model[70]

Factors for risk group	Poor prognostic category and factors
Factor	Category
Time from diagnosis to study entry	< 12 mo
Hemoglobin	Below lower limit of reference range
Lactate dehydrogenase	> 1.5 x upper limit of reference range
Corrected serum calcium	> 10.0 mg/dL
Previous radiotherapy	Yes
No. of metastatic sites	≥ 2
Risk Group	No. of factors
Favorable	Zero or one
Intermediate	Two
Poor	Three or more

Patients are stratified into three groups depending on the number of poor prognostic factors found, as follows: favorable risk group, patients with zero or one poor prognostic factor; intermediate risk group, presence of two poor prognostic factors; poor risk group, presence of three or more poor prognostic factors.