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Third Canadian Kidney Cancer Forum: Moving Forward Together
01/20/2011
Validation of newly identified quality indicators for kidney cancer care in Canada. This will greatly benefit from CKCis which will allow the measure of changes in these indicators with time to continue offering the best treatments to patients.
Kidney cancer linked to mutated gene
01/19/2011
Scientists think they're close to understanding all of the abnormal genes which cause kidney cancer.
Reform of the NHS must start with the rudest nurse and the shabbiest hospital ward
01/18/2011
Good luck to Mr Cameron in shaking up the NHS. Putting back a caring culture on our wards would cost nothing but would transform peoples experience of hospitals.
Clinical Trials Research Recently Published
01/18/2011
Research findings, 'A new concept for non-invasive renal tumour ablation using real-time MRI-guided radiation therapy,' are discussed in a new report.
Pfizer Seeks Approval For Three Cancer Drugs
01/18/2011
Applications will be submitted by the firm to the European Medicines Agency and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later this year...
KCA Announces New Italian Website to Help Kidney Cancer Patients and Their Families
01/18/2011
Kidney cancer affects 8,500 people every year in Italy, but it is not a very well known disease. Patients need all information we have on innovative therapies and recent findings. Only in the last few months, new molecules, targeted bullets, are available to Italians. These agents are able to prolong patients survival.
Circulating endothelial cells are an early predictor in renal cell carcinoma for tumor response to sunitinib
01/14/2011
Sunitinib treatment is associated with an early increase of Circulating endothelial cells (CEC) in responding patients, suggesting superior endothelial cell damage in these patients as a putative predictive biomarker.
Cost of Cancer Care will Increase 27%
01/14/2011
The full analysis appears online today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Will We Be Able To Care For Cancer Patients In The Future?
01/14/2011
An aging population, improved screening, and more effective therapies have resulted in a steadily increasing number of patients and cancer survivors.
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