Dr. Pooja Ghatalia received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for her research on “Comparison of immune microenvironment between patients of African and European ancestry with renal cell carcinoma.” Dr. Ghatalia is a medical oncologist and…
Dr. Nazli Dizman received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for her research on the “Impact of CBM588 on metabolomic profile in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC)”. Dr. Dizman is an internal medicine resident…
Three separate phase III clinical trials showed that people with kidney cancer who had undergone nephrectomy (kidney removal) but whose cancer had not yet metastasized, or spread, did not benefit from adjuvant immunotherapy.
The COSMIC-313 trial showed a 27% decrease in the risk of progression or death favoring triplet therapy for kidney cancer.
Kidney cancer research highlights from the 2022 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).
Radiation therapy uses targeted doses of high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells and help reduce the size of some tumors.
This is a guest post by Joel Stern, who was diagnosed with stage IV renal cell carcinoma in 2020. It’s been a year since I wrote about my journey with Stage IV renal cell carcinoma…
Being told you have cancer is a traumatic event, one in which patients should be provided with mental health resources to help them cope with their diagnosis but sadly, that is not the standard of care.
“Immunotherapies let me live a normal life,” said Allen Rogers, who was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma in 2007 at age 51.
Dr. Daniel George answers when and why patients are re-treated with immunotherapy.
