Don Hoff, the “Happy Man in a Village”
This is a guest post by Susan Hoff-Angelin. My late husband, Don Hoff, was larger than life. He loved life and lived it to its full extent, so when we found out he had stage…
This is a guest post by Susan Hoff-Angelin. My late husband, Don Hoff, was larger than life. He loved life and lived it to its full extent, so when we found out he had stage…
By D’Ann George, PhD, Medical Writer Standing on the bank of a waterway that winds through French Cajun Country in Louisiana, Keith Thibodeaux felt such intense vertigo, he feared he might fall into the water….
By D’Ann George, PhD, Medical Writer When Marie Langhorne first felt pain in her right leg, in the fall of 2018, she was sitting in her office at Catawba College, in Salisbury, NC, where she…
Mike Greene, 70, has been working in construction since he was 20 years old. As an industry veteran with his own North Carolina-based business since 1972, he has a practical approach towards problem solving. “I…
Caregiving is a complex, challenging, sometimes heartbreaking, often rewarding responsibility. In honor of National Family Caregivers Month, we asked several people for their insights and best tips on caregiving. Read what they shared below. Sign…
Jennifer Christensen, LCSW, OSW-C is a clinical social worker in the Patient and Family Support Program at Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Cancer Center in Los Angeles, California. KCA Ambassador Annamarya Scaccia, who was diagnosed with chromophobe…
Dr. Yufei Wang received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for her research on “Design of CAIX Targeted Fine-Tuned Immune Restoring Safe (FIS) CAR-T Cell Therapy for Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ccRCC)”. Dr. Wang…
Dr. Sheldon Holder received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for his research on the “Exploration of the causes and effects of increased PIM1 kinase activity in renal cell carcinoma”. Dr. Holder is a physician-scientist at…
Dr. Erin Tagai received a 2022 KCA Psychosocial Focus Award for her research on “Improving patient-reported outcomes for renal cancer patients on active surveillance.” Dr. Tagai is an Assistant Research Professor at Fox Chase Cancer…
Dr. David Braun received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for his research on “Dissecting the immunobiology of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma using single-cell transcriptomics.” Dr. Braun is a medical oncologist and an Assistant Professor of…
