This is from the cancernetwork.com At the 2024 Kidney Cancer Research Summit (KCRS), CancerNetwork® spoke with various experts in the kidney cancer field about potential advancements in disease detection and updated efficacy data on immunotherapy and other treatment strategies in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Karl Semaan, MD, MSc, a postdoctoral oncology research fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discussed the implications of findings related to the use of an investigational tissue-informed liquid biopsy epigenomic profiling tool for detecting sarcomatoid differentiation in R ..read more

Sex-specific survival gene mutations are discovered as clinical predictors of clear cell renal cell carcinoma The incidence of clear cell renal cell carcinoma is twice as high in males as in females worldwide, and the prognosis is also worse in males. Differences in subtypes, prognosis, and treatment response in ccRCC according to sex have been observed, but the underlying reasons are not well known. Sex-related differences in cancer have been reported independent of race, ethnicity, or geographic location. According to the GLOBOCAN 2020 database, increased overall cancer incidence rates ..read more

In this day and age, £2 is not a great deal of money. Many people spend almost twice as much on a medium-sized cup of Latte from a leading coffee shop or a newspaper. If enough people gave just a £2 monthly donation to Kidney Cancer UK, you would make a real difference to people’s lives. We would be able to invest more in patient support, we could raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis and through that a vastly improve chance of a positive outcome, we could invest further in research for treatments to bring that dream of ridding the world of kidney cancer one step closer, or help ..read more

By Hazel Jackson Kidney Cancer UK Healthcare Professional Nurse A Renal Artery Embolisation simply means blocking the blood flow to the cancer in the kidney. For some people, surgery or systemic cancer treatments (SACT) may not be an option due to other health factors making the negatives outweigh the benefits. In these situations you may be offered renal artery embolisation, normally it would only be offered if you are symptomatic. The idea is that this would then starve the kidney of the oxygen and nutrients needed and prevent growth. This reduction in oxygen and nutrients would therefore he ..read more

Kidney Cancer UK is delighted to present our 10-Year Review of the Kidney Cancer UK Patient Survey results from 2013 to 2023 with over 3,200 patient responses. Click to read report For the last decade, Kidney Cancer UK has carried out an annual survey of kidney cancer patients, focusing on their experience of services throughout the UK.  This has allowed us to produce a report each year that is the focus of Kidney Cancer Awareness Week each February.  Having collected ten years of data, we have now looked back over the entire period to see how far services for kidney cancer patient ..read more

The election is looming and many of us are being ‘doorstepped’ by political parties seeking our vote to put them in the seat of power. To this end, Kidney Cancer UK has written a Manifesto which we hope will help anyone touched by kidney cancer to press those canvassing your vote on the subject of the NHS, patient support, treatments and welfare of kidney cancer patients and what they would deliver if voted into government. Use your vote, you have the power. Download our Manifesto Here     The post Manifesto 2024 appeared first on Kidney Cancer UK ..read more

A blog by Phil Richards MBE – June 2024 Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read my story and I hope you can take something of value from it. If I could set the scene, I was a 39-year-old man, with a lovely wife and two incredible teenage daughters that formed a tight-knit family unit. I had a successful career, I exercised 3 to 4 times a week and I looked and felt happy and healthy. If I were to go back to my younger self and show him the life he was to have, I’m sure he would have been delighted, why wouldn’t he be? My life however was reframed on the 19th March 2017, by an unexpected ..read more

Kidney Cancer UK are delighted to announce the return of, in July 2024 as physical events, our free Living With Kidney Cancer Patient Information Days. Pre-Covid-19, we regularly ran our Living With Kidney Cancer Patient Information Days across the country from Southampton to Stirling (main picture from 2018) and from London to Edinbrugh they were incredibly popular to to the whole kidney cancer community. So, it is wonderful to announce the return of these incredibly popular days starting with our first one on Monday, July 8th 2024 at Maggie’s Yorkshire in Leeds. The day is open to patients ..read more

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The East Midlands Kidney Cancer Support Group had a very successful meeting in support of Kidney Cancer Awareness Week 2024 at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln. With 29 in attendance, (12 patients, carers 11nursing and 6 nursing staff) members enjoyed a very good buffet lunch followed by some tips on mindfulness and then enjoyed a guided tour of the grounds and visiting the exhibition. Gifts were provided by the Flutter Project and Kidney Cancer UK who also provided information about kidney cancer.   Visit East Midlands Support Group Page     The post Great ..read more