Below are some highlights from research presented at the 2023 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which took place in Chicago, Illinois from June 2-6. Cabozantinib plus nivolumab is a promising treatment for…
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…
A nephrectomy is surgery to remove all or part of a kidney, but when someone has surgery to remove a kidney tumor that has metastasized (spread) to other areas, the name for the procedure is called a cytoreductive nephrectomy. In years past, this procedure provided the best option to prolong survival for people with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) because no effective pharmaceutical treatments existed for this patient group.
By D’Ann George, PhD, Medical Writer We rounded up a few research highlights from the 2023 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU), held recently in San Francisco, California. Kidney cancer guidelines updates Dr. Shuchi Gulati…
A new way to scan and image renal masses has the potential to accurately determine if a renal mass is cancerous or benign before a patient needs to have surgery. The phase 3 ZIRCON trial…
By D’Ann George, PhD, Medical Writer When talking to people about clinical trials, Dr. Chung-Han Lee, an oncologist and kidney cancer expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, hears many of the…
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…