Oncology & Cancer
Research shows that lymph node sampling during kidney tumor surgery is safe
A longstanding approach to surgeries for children with kidney tumors has been an abundance of caution.
May 1, 2023
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News tagged with kidney cancer
Oncology & Cancer
Researchers uncover new clues to origins of the most common pediatric kidney cancer
While Wilms tumor—also known as nephroblastoma—is rare, it is the most prevalent childhood kidney cancer. Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have now pinpointed a disruption in early kidney progenitor cell ...
May 1, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Genetic clues reveal lung cancer's next move
Knowing whether a tumor might grow or spread to other parts of a patient's body could be key to survival—and now scientists are one step closer to unlocking the ability to predict just that.
Apr 13, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers ID biomarkers of response to immunotherapy for kidney cancer
The number of immune cells in and around kidney tumors, the amount of dead cancer tissue, and mutations to a tumor suppressor gene called PBRM1 form a biomarker signature that can predict—before treatment begins—how well ...
Apr 6, 2023
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Medications
Combination therapy a promising option for advanced kidney cancer patients already treated with immunotherapy
Immunotherapies, such as anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1, have become standard first line therapies for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer). Most patients, however, eventually experience disease progression, ...
Apr 3, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Video: How is kidney cancer treated?
More than 50,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year. Risks factors for developing this type of cancer include environmental exposures, such as smoking, high blood pressure, a history of kidney failure, ...
Mar 21, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Genes reveal kidney cancer's risk of recurrence
Studying the mutations in kidney cancer after surgery could help to better predict the risk of the disease coming back, according to the latest results of a decade-long international study.
Feb 23, 2023
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Medical research
New cell death mechanism could offer novel cancer treatment strategies
A study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, published today in Nature Cell Biology, details a previously unexplained type of cell death called disulfidptosis that could open the door for ...
Feb 6, 2023
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Health
New study speculates on health impact of less salt in Australia's packaged foods
Reformulating packaged foods in Australia to contain less sodium might save about 1,700 lives per year and prevent nearly 7,000 annual diagnoses of heart disease, kidney disease and stomach cancer, according to new research ...
Jan 10, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Trends in genitourinary cancers examined in the United States
The highest incidence rates of bladder cancer are seen in the Northeast, while the West has the highest deaths rates for prostate cancer among non-Hispanic White men, according to a study published online Dec. 21 in European ...
Dec 21, 2022
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