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KCA’s Research Intern Outlines Grant Impact

This is a guest post by Liam Piscetelli, the KCA’s 2024 Research Intern. For the past 8 months, I have interned with the KCA as a research intern. As a student working towards their Masters…

Jamie Graves Runs for a Cure

Jamie Graves is a kidney cancer advocate and member of the Kidney Cancer Association’s Board of Directors since 2017. She is running the 2024 Chicago Marathon to support kidney cancer research. Learn more about Jamie’s…

Texans Football

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…

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