Dr. Julia Stevens, PharmD, BCOP, is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Ambulatory Oncology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She specializes in kidney cancer, prostate cancer, and melanoma. Her primary clinical responsibilities…
Dr. Emily Wang, PharmD, BCOP, is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Genitourinary Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. What motivated you to get involved with the KCA? I had heard about…
Peggy Zuckerman, a long-time kidney cancer patient, advocate, and member of the KCA’s Patient & Caregiver Advisory Council, was the featured cover story for Cancer Today magazine’s Summer 2023 issue. She was diagnosed with kidney…
This is a guest post by Mike Domingo. My name is Mike Domingo and this is my journey. It started one night in February 2021. I woke up to go to the bathroom and fortunately turned…
This is a guest post by Nicole Bass, whose 18-year-old son Cody was diagnosed with ALK-positive rearranged renal cell carcinoma in 2022. Cody’s biggest concern through this whole journey was bowling. He’s on the bowling…
By D’Ann George, PhD, Medical Writer For ten years, Dr. Jose Karam, a urologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, looked forward to receiving Paul Laudadio’s Christmas card. Though many expressions of gratitude decorated his office…
Clinical trials are a treatment option for people with cancer and are both a powerful tool to understand disease and develop new treatments. While participating in a clinical trial does carry legitimate risks, people can…
Below are some of the research highlights from the 2023 American Urological Association Annual Meeting held on April 28 – May 1 in Chicago, Illinois. Successful imaging of very small renal lesions New data from the phase…
In a changing kidney cancer treatment landscape where immunotherapies and combination therapies have become more common as first-line treatments for patients, a number of presentations at the 2023 American Urological Association Annual Meeting held in…
This is a guest post by Annamarya Scaccia, a KCA Ambassador. Annamarya was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2020. She is a certified fitness and nutrition coach who helps kidney cancer survivors optimize their performance…
