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Basque Research
Research has shown the efficacy of a pharmaceutical drug known as sunitinibtermwhich halts progress of metastaticterm kidney cancer. The work was published recently in the prestigious international...
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Cryoablation -- A new treatment option for some kidney tumor patients
Mayo Clinic researchers report that freezing kidney tumors through percutaneous cryoablation shows promise for patients who are not good candidates for surgery. Their early findings showing short-term...
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Translocation Kidney Cancer after Chemotherapy in Childhood
This article out of Johns Hopkins reviewed the risk of renal cell carcinomaterm occurring as a secondary malignancy after chemotherapytermin childhood. It is known that children who survive cancer...
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HHMI News: Kidney Cancer Shuts Down Protein Destruction Complex
Kidney Cancer Shuts Down Protein Destruction Complex New evidence shows that Wilms tumor - a rare kidney cancer that affects children - promotes its own growth agenda by taking over a genetic program...
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Glowing dye improves cancer removal in kidney
A new way to provide clear images of cancerous tumors in the kidney during surgery promises to help physicians preserve as much kidney function as possible while still removing all the malignant...
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First Multiple Drug Trial to Attack Blood Vessel Formation in Kidney Cancer
PHILADELPHIA – In the first clinical trial of its kind, researchers at theUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and theAbramson Cancer Centerwill lead a nationwide test of anti-cancer drug...
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Cryoablation continues to show good results for kidney cancer patients
OCHESTER, Minn. -- A review of 62 Mayo Clinic patients who underwent cryoablation to treat cancerous kidney tumors shows that the patients are cancer free for up to two and a half years after having...
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How less can be more when treating some juvenile kidney cancers
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A new Mayo Clinic study suggests that removing the entire kidney from younger patients with small kidney tumors may lead to decreased overall survival compared with an operation...
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Cancer vaccine shows promise in patients with bowel, kidney and prostate cancer
Geneva, Switzerland: Analysis of data from several phase I and II clinical trials of a new cancer vaccine has shown it is capable of eliciting an immune response in most patients with bowel, kidney...
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Unraveling kidney cancer
In a new study, scientists have searched for mutations in the gene regions of more than 100 kidney cancer samples, the largest number of samples from a single tumour type to be sequenced to date.read...
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