The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston, Massachusetts recently recognized the Kidney Cancer Association (KCA) for supporting researchers at the institution with over $1 million in funding. KCA’s name was placed on the DFCI’s Benefactors…
This is a guest post by D’Ann George, PhD, Medical Writer. Some kidney cancers are so rare that clinicians don’t know enough about them to determine what treatments should be standard, or even to predict…
We rounded up a few research highlights from the 2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU), held recently in San Francisco, California. Adjuvant immunotherapy improved survival after nephrectomy and could be new standard of care Researchers are…
This is a guest post by Dr. Arpita Desai, an oncologist at the University of California San Francisco specializing in genitourinary cancers. She summarized the results and takeaways for patients from key trials presented at…
This is a guest post by D’Ann George, PhD, Medical Writer. Joel Stern vividly remembers the first time he saw the phrase palliative care in his medical file. At the time, in 2020, Stern had…
This is a guest post by Dr. Pavlos Msaouel, a medical oncologist and researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center, renal medullary carcinoma expert, and member of the KCA’s Medical Steering Committee. Dr. Msaouel has also…
I’m excited to highlight a new study spearheaded by Dr. Ritesh Kotecha from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that describes how renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients’ genetic ancestry (GA) – which is the information about…
We rounded up a few research highlights from the 2023 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), held recently in Madrid, Spain. Two new first-line treatment immunotherapy options Toripalimab is a new immunotherapy infusion, a…
Three analyses of the LITESPARK trial examining the hypoxia-inducible factor 2a (HIF-2a) belzutifan (Welireg) showed efficacy and benefit for this novel therapy over comparator treatments in advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) as well…
The KCA recently partnered with two advocacy groups on a blog post examining the relationship between exercise and sickle cell trait. This blog post appears at Sick Cells, a national non-profit advocacy group for sickle…