Friday, 12 March 2010- Early response to preoperative targeted therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma may indicate efficacy, while treatment-induced hypertension may be another marker after surgery, according to researchers...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010- Men who work in the sun are less likely to contract kidney cancer than men who work indoors, according to a study which examined more than 2,500 people in Europe.

"To our knowledge, this is the first...

Monday, 8 March 2010- The experimental drug belatacept can prevent graft rejection in kidney transplant recipients while better preserving kidney function when compared with standard immunosuppressive drugs, data from two...

Friday, 5 March 2010-  A group of Australian researchers compared the levels of circulating endothelial cells (CECs) and progenitors (CEPs) between tumour-bearing mice and healthy controls, in human renal cell carcinoma...

Friday, 26 February 2010- Israeli and American researchers have identified new genetic data that could be used in the future to predict who will develop end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). ESKD requires dialysis or transplantation...

Thursday, 25 February 2010- Serum cell-free DNA (cf-DNA) integrity may serve as a predictive marker for the diagnosis and detection of clear renal cell carcinoma (cRCC), according to a study in the February issue of...

Thursday, 25 February 2010- Two studies in the in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Urology suggest that stereotactic percutaneous cryoablation and laparoscopic renal cyroablation are effective treatments for selected...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010- A comparison of two types of minimally invasive surgery to repair kidney blockages that prevent urine from draining normally to the bladder found that robot-assisted surgery was faster and resulted in...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010- In a large controlled trial, major clinical outcomes in advanced renal cancer were not shown to be improved by combining interferon alfa-2a with interleukin plus fluorouracil.

Renal cell carcinoma...