Curious about Immuno-Oncology?
IKCC launches an educational website for immuno-oncology for kidney cancer. Powerful Patient interviews Deb Maskens about this effort and its goals.
The Role of Patient Advocates at Medical Meetings
While attending the 2015 European Cancer Congress (ECC) and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), Deb Maskens (Kidney Cancer Canada) participated in an interview with Bettina Ryll, MD, PhD, chair of the ESMO Patient Advocacy Working Group and a [...]
U.S. Trends in treating small renal masses
Partial nephrectomy is now more frequently used in the U.S. than radical nephrectomy. A study of the U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) registry 2001-2009 data shows that surgery continues to be the most common treatment, with [...]
Expanding Circles 2016
The 2016 Conference of the International Kidney Cancer and its Affiliates and supporters will take place in April 2016. Registration information is now available.
EAU Guidelines Amended
The publication in 2015 of results of two pivotal clinical trials were sufficiently compelling that the Guidelines Committee of the European Assocation of Urology has modified its Guidelines. The modified advisory was published in European Urology. […]
ALCER meeting, Madrid
During the annual meeting of the Spanish Federation against kidney diseases (ALCER) Dr. Alvaro Montesa (Oncologist, University Hospital “Virgen de la Victoria” in Malaga, Spain) spoke about the incidence of kidney cancer in Spain, surgical options and new treatments for metastatic cancer.