Majority of kidney cancers diagnosed at earliest stage

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 05/18/2008 - 23:00

(University of California - San Diego) Patients in the United States today are now much more likely to be diagnosed with smaller tumors, in the earliest, most treatable stage of kidney cancer than a decade ago, leading to a slightly higher survival rate, according to the results of a national study led by a UC San Diego Medical Center researcher.

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