kidney cancer

Landmark UCLA study finds aggresive, personalized treatment incr...

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of California - Los Angeles) A study of nearly 1,500 patients treated for kidney cancer at UCLA in the last 15 years shows that an aggressive, tailored treatment approach results in better survival rates and uncoveres subsets of kidney cancer that behave differently and need to be treated accordingly.

Partial Nephrectomy May Be Best for Overall Survival in Kidney C...

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:56:05 -0500

NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- Kidney cancer patients who also have reduced renal function may be better off undergoing partial rather than radical nephrectomy, researchers here said.

Stanford researchers find molecule that kills kidney cancer cell...

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(Stanford University Medical Center) Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ. But that could change, thanks to a new molecule found by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers that kills kidney cancer cells.

Vaccine Therapy Disappoints for Kidney Cancer

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:30:00 -0500

HOUSTON -- The tumor-derived vaccine vitespen (Oncophage) does not prevent kidney cancer recurrence or improve survival despite promising early results, researchers said.

Patient Web sites used for news, support in crisis

admin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:27:52 -0500

NEW YORK -- When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later...

Patient Web sites used for news, support in crisis

admin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:18:38 -0500

NEW YORK (AP) -- When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later suffered brain damage....

Majority of kidney cancers diagnosed at earliest stage

admin — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(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.

Drug fends off kidney cancer progression

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) New data from an international, multicenter Phase III clinical trial has found that the experimental targeted therapy everolimus (RAD001) significantly delays cancer progression in patients with metastatic kidney cancer whose disease had worsened on other treatments.

Kidney cancer deaths show overall decrease in Europe

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Male kidney cancer deaths have fallen by 13 percent across Europe since they peaked in the early 1990s and women have benefited from a 17 percent reduction. But the study of 32 countries, based on data from the World Health Organization, has revealed wide variations between countries.