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This is a guest post by Christopher G. Wood, Jr, son of the KCA’s late Board Chair and friend, Dr. Christopher G. Wood, a world-renown urology surgeon at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas….

What Cancer Has Taught Me

This is a guest post by Teri Wight, 51, a teacher and a chromophobe renal cell carcinoma survivor based in Arizona. Read her other blog post “Just Shy of a Decade and Still Learning.” At…

Spotlight: Sean Healy, Patient & Caregiver Advisory Council

Sean Healy joined the KCA’s Patient & Caregiver Advisory Council in 2024. Sean was diagnosed with stage 3 kidney cancer in 2018. He lives in Richmond, Virginia. What motivated you to get involved with the…

Just Shy of a Decade and Still Learning

This is a guest post by Teri Wight, 51, who was diagnosed with chromophobe renal cell carcinoma in 2014. She is a teacher based in Arizona. Read her other blog post, “What Cancer Has Taught…

Spotlight: Nazy Zomorodian, Clinical Advisory Board

Nazy Zomorodian, RNC, MSN, CUNP, CCRC, is the Director of the Clinical Trials Program at the Institute of Urologic Oncology and a Urology Nurse Practitioner at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, as…

Brandy Verdin’s Kidney Cancer Story

This is a guest post by Brandy Verdin, who was diagnosed with stage 4 renal cell carcinoma on May 1, 2023. She is based in Gray, Louisiana. I did everything I was supposed to do…

Spotlight: Reena Cherry, Clinical Advisory Board

Reena Cherry, MS, PA-C, is a Senior Physician Assistant at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center in San Diego, California. What motivated you to get involved with the Kidney Cancer Association? I had the…

Carie Gort’s Kidney Cancer Story

This is a guest post by Carie Gort, 55, a patient advocate and stage 4 kidney cancer survivor/thriver. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I had been feeling generally unwell for several years leading up…

Recapping the 82K Regional Challenge: Philadelphia

Team – 82K Regional Challenge: Philadelphia Team Captain – Erin Tennity Richard. She fundraises with her nature-loving husband, Randy, who has been fighting kidney cancer since diagnosed in 2019. Location – Natural Lands’ Bryn Coed Preserve, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania…

SilvaStrong: Unveiling the Unexpected

This is a guest post by Joshua Silva, a fitness enthusiast and creator (@joshsilva7 on Instagram) who was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma in 2023 at age 31. He is based in Houston, Texas. Life…

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