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US-based Indian Shuvo Roy creates first artificial kidney
12/04/2010
US-based Indian origin researcher Shuvo Roy has created the world's first implantable artificial kidney . What's sensational about Roy's creation is that the organ, no larger than a coffee cup, will be able to mimic the kidney's most vital functions like filtering toxins out of the bloodstream, regulate blood pressure and produce the all- important vitamin D.
Weight and drinking 'major factors in cancer'
12/01/2010
Staying slim and drinking less alcohol is a better way to ward off cancer than eating fruit and vegetables, it has been claimed.
Pfizer awards $2M to cancer network
12/01/2010
Axitinib is an oral and selective inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors that might play roles in tumor growth and the metastatic progression of cancer.
Chemokine-mediated distribution of dendritic cell subsets in renal cell carcinoma
12/01/2010
We characterized the distribution of the different immature and mature myeloid DC subsets in RCC tumour tissue and the corresponding normal kidney tissues.
Association between renal cell carcinoma and multiple myeloma
12/01/2010
We estimated standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) by dividing the number of observed cases of multiple myeloma within the renal cell carcinoma cohort and the number of renal cell carcinoma cases within the multiple myeloma cohort by the number of expected cases for each malignancy in the US general population.
Quality of pathological reporting for renal cell cancer
12/01/2010
Current RCC pathology reporting fails to satisfy CAP guidelines, does not permit the use of prognostic systems, and may hinder enrollment into adjuvant trials and the selection of systemic therapy
Doctors turn up heat on tumors
11/30/2010
Radiofrequency ablation, sometimes referred to as RFA, is a minimally invasive treatment for cancer. It is an image-guided technique that heats and destroys cancer cells.
Woman with Kidney Cancer Celebrates Love
11/29/2010
Fifth Kidney Cancer Drug Rejected by NICE
11/27/2010
The faces of kidney cancer
11/26/2010
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