Kidney cancer happens when cells in one or both kidneys start to grow out of control. Eventually, the cells become a mass called a tumor. As the cancer progresses, it can spread to other parts of the ...

Kidney cancer in early stages is curable if found and treated before it spreads. Surgery is a common treatment for stages 1 to 3 kidney cancer and can remove part or all of the kidney. Stage 4 kidney ...

Kidney cancer affects tens-of-thousands every year, but research and care advances are improving survival chances and quality of life for patients. Kidney cancer occurs more frequently than many ...

A new meta-analysis further supports the previously reported link between kidney stones and an increased risk for kidney ...

Roberto Pili, MD, associate dean for cancer research and integrative oncology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is the principal investigator on a new five-year, $1.8 million ...

Early-stage kidney cancer is often asymptomatic and discovered incidentally through imaging tests for unrelated conditions. Treatment options include partial nephrectomy, radical nephrectomy, ...

New research looked at how cancers arise in children who are predisposed to developing the childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, which could help anticipate the development of tumors before they fully ...

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) comprises 80% of all primary kidney malignancies and causes 90% of kidney cancer deaths. But it is notoriously tough to diagnose. RCC is not easily distinguished ...

Cancer fighting T-cells, the immune system's primary enforcers, are scarce in the rare kidney cancer called chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (ChRCC) and those that are present are indifferent to the ...

A new personalized immunotherapy treatment called a cancer vaccine has shown promising results in a phase I trial in people with kidney cancer. The results from nine patients treated at Dana-Farber ...