Oncology & Cancer

AI can recommend if you need to be screened for cancer

Currently, recommendations for cancer screening are primarily based on the age of the patient. Therefore, practitioners may not encourage younger at-risk individuals to be screened for cancer. They may unnecessarily encourage ...

Oncology & Cancer

Unraveling the role of exercise in cancer suppression

Call it a new type of precision medicine. A Northeastern researcher says one day oncologists may be able to write personalized exercise "prescriptions" for cancer patients that suppress tumor growth.

Oncology & Cancer

Lifetime body weight patterns may affect kidney cancer risk

Excess weight in midlife is a known risk factor for kidney cancer, but new research indicates that weight patterns throughout life may also affect an individual's likelihood of developing this malignancy. The findings are ...

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers advance non-invasive cancer detection methods

Researchers at Vilnius University have developed an effective approach to liquid biopsy that contributes to the field of non-invasive cancer detection methods, with significant implications for personalized medicine.

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Kidney cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the cells in the kidney.

The two most common types of kidney cancer are renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) of the renal pelvis. These names reflect the type of cell from which the cancer developed.

The different types of kidney cancer (such as RCC and UCC) develop in different ways, meaning that the diseases have different outlooks (or prognosis), and need to be staged and treated in different ways.

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