UT Southwestern Medical Center Kidney Cancer Program investigators have published what is believed to be the first reported successful use of stereotactic body radiation therapy for an often deadly complication of kidney ...
Apr 7, 2015
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Kidney cancer is the eighth most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, with a five-year survival rate of 72.4 percent. At first glance, these survival rates compare advantageously to other seemingly deadlier cancers ...
Apr 6, 2015
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If kidney cancer is diagnosed early—before it spreads—80 percent of patients survive. However, finding it early has been among the disease's greatest challenges.
Mar 19, 2015
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Physicians at Henry Ford Hospital successfully suctioned a cancerous tumor from a major vein in a patient with metastatic kidney cancer, clearing the way for him to undergo a minimally-invasive kidney removal. This allowed ...
Feb 11, 2015
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Using next generation gene sequencing techniques, cancer researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified more than 3,000 new mutations involved in certain kidney cancers, findings that help explain the diversity ...
Nov 17, 2014
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Cincinnati Cancer Center (CCC) researchers have discovered that a membrane channel, Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 3, or TRPM3, promotes growth of kidney cancer tumors, and targeting this channel therapeutically ...
Nov 10, 2014
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Children's kidney and thyroid cancers have increased in recent years, and though the diseases are rare, U.S. experts wonder if the rising rates could be related to obesity.
Sep 8, 2014
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Needle-guided tumor destruction procedures offer near equivalent lengths of local cancer control compared to surgery for patients with small kidney cancer tumors, according to the results of a large study published in the ...
Aug 12, 2014
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In an analysis of small molecules called metabolites used by the body to make fuel in normal and cancerous cells in human kidney tissue, a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania ...
Jul 20, 2014
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Roughly 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year. Most of them have small tumors that doctors discover while screening for other health problems.
Jul 11, 2014
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