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Team Captain Lindsay Walker (right) with a participant at the KCA Regional Challenge: Oregon! Team – 2025 KCA Regional Challenge: Oregon Team Captain – Lindsay Walker, chromophobe RCC survivor and patient advocate. This is Lindsay's second year leading Oregon's KCA Regional Challenge! Location – Tualatin Community Park in Tualatin, Oregon Date – April 12, 2025 Attendees: 60 Fundraising Goal: $8,100 Amount Raised – $37,840 Activity – “Choose…

The Kidney Cancer Association's President and CEO, Gretchen E. Vaughan, shared a statement with the medical news publication MedPage Today opposing the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, which slashed funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute by nearly 40%. These cuts would be a devastating setback in medical progress and the KCA stands…

Team Captain Sarah Tuck Team – 2025 KCA Regional Challenge: Pennsylvania Team Captain – Sarah Tuck, Senior Manager of Patient Programs for the KCA. Sarah's grandmother, Patricia Rutter, was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2018 and passed away in 2023. Location – Middletown Skate Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Date – May 24, 2025 Attendees: 35 Amount Raised – $330 Activity – Skateboarding for Change! Event…

This is an excerpt of an article from the 2024 IKCS: North America PROCEEDINGS, a publication of the Kidney Cancer Journal, which highlighted key research discussed at the Kidney Cancer Association's 2024 International Kidney Cancer Symposium (IKCS): North America held in Louisville, Kentucky on November 7-9, 2024. That meeting marked the 25th anniversary of IKCS meetings hosted by the Kidney…

Nicole and Keith Scott Team – 2025 KCA Regional Challenge: Ohio Team Captain – Nicole Scott, wife and caregiver for her husband Keith Scott, who was diagnosed with papillary renal cell carcinoma in 2023. Location – Mary Virginia Crites Hannan Park in Circleville, Ohio Date – May 10, 2025 Attendees: 100 Fundraising Goal – $1,000 Amount Raised – $11,222 (donations still coming in!) Activity – 5K Walk/Run…

Team – 2025 KCA Regional Challenge: Austin Team Captain – Annamaria Scaccia, 2-time cancer survivor and Member, KCA’s Patient & Caregiver Advisory Council Location – Lake Pflugerville Park, Pflugerville, Texas Date – April 12, 2025 Attendees: 11 Fundraising Goal – $3,000 Amount Raised – $3,284 Activity – 81-minute walk around Lake Pflugerville Event Highlights – My favorite highlight was seeing everyone show up and stay fully engaged throughout…

In a new episode of the Cancer Interviews podcast, host and prostate cancer survivor Bruce Morton speaks with Kidney Cancer Association Ambassador Jeff Kallis about his journey with kidney cancer and how it led him to advocacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdU8LFPJk8I Jeff was diagnosed with stage 3 clear cell renal cell carcinoma in 2023. Since then, he’s not only navigated treatment and recovery, but found…

The 2025 International Kidney Cancer Symposium: Europe, taking place in Amsterdam on May 1-3, will feature three special lectures recognizing outstanding leaders in kidney cancer. Dr. Michael Staehler Dr. Michael Staehler will receive the KCA's John Fitzpatrick Award recognizing excellence in urology care. Dr. Staehler is the founder and head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Renal Tumours at Ludwig-Maximilians University…

A significant amount of new, practice-changing information about kidney cancer has been published and presented over the last 18 months. It can be challenging for nurses, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians to keep up with every update. No worries: a few members of the Kidney Cancer Association’s Clinical Advisory Board (CAB) conducted reviews for you and provided…

The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) was created by Congress in 1992 to fund high-impact medical research—especially in areas overlooked by traditional sources—through the Department of Defense. CDMRP began with breast cancer research and has since expanded to support many conditions affecting both Service Members and civilians. https://www.kidneycancer.org/protect-federal-kidney-cancer-research-funding/ The CDMRP’s unique strength lies in backing high-risk, high-reward science: early-stage, innovative ideas that…