News Posts List
3D Printed Kidneys Are Reality
04/21/2014
Kidney Cancer News for April, 2014. An increase in kidney cancer survival is reported, along with news of artificial 3D printed kidneys.
Penn State Chapter finalizes big plans for fundraising
04/21/2014
The Penn State Chapter of Uplifting Athletes has finalized its plans for the Nittany Lions’ annual spring football Blue-White Game on Saturday.
Laparoscopy/robotics studies explore the limits of minimally invasive surgery
04/18/2014
Urologists continue to push the limits of minimally invasive surgery
FREE Book: Renal Cell Carcinoma
04/18/2014
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer, accounting for nearly 90 percent of all kidney cancer diagnoses.
What Sweden Can Teach Us About ObamaCare
04/18/2014
Sweden is praised as a rare example of a socialist country that works. A closer look at its health-care system tells a different story.
Kidney cancer survival rates improve
04/17/2014
Kidney cancer survival rates have shown a significant rise in spite of rising incidence of the disease, according to a new report* by Public Health England’s National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN).
3D-printed kidneys could become standard for simulated cancer surgery
04/15/2014
At the European Association of Urology congress in Stockholm, Sweden, surgeons from Japan announced that they have created 3D-printed tumor-containing kidneys for the use of simulated cancer surgery.
Renal medullary carcinoma in a white adolescent with sickle cell trait
04/15/2014
Renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) is a rare neoplasm of the kidney that has been recently described.
Moffitt Cancer Center begins Phase I clinical trial of new immunotherapy
04/11/2014
The drug, ID-G305, harnesses the body's immune system to fight various cancers