Biology
Hope for the treatment of kidney cancer
Kidney cancer usually has no symptoms until it has spread to other organs. This type of cancer is most difficult to treat. New chemical treatments promise to prolong sur…
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Articles about Kidney Cancer
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Medicine - Health
Detection of enzymes for effective treatment of kidney cancer
According to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology, Duke Cancer Institute researchers have recently discovered a blood enzyme that may help dete…
Medicine - Health
There is a link between Agent Orange and kidney cancer
Researchers from the Louisiana Center for Veterans' Health Center have found that in US veterans exposed to Agent Orange / dioxin in Vietnam there is a link between this…
Medicine - Health
New measures to treat kidney cancer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the use of oral Votrient (pazopanib) to treat end-stage renal cell carcinoma.
Medicine - Health
Detection of genes that cause kidney cancer in children
American doctors have discovered a gene that causes kidney cancer in children. This opens up the prospect of effective treatment of kidney cancer right from the beginnin…
Medicine - Health
Moderate alcohol consumption may reduce the risk of kidney cancer
Moderate alcohol consumption may reduce the risk of kidney cancer in middle-aged and older women, according to a Swedish study, women who drank at least one drink a week…
Cancer
The black woman turns white after taking cancer medicine
Paula Edwards, 54 (UK), changed her skin color from black to white after taking kidney cancer medicine.