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Rare Wilms' Tumor Case Surfaces in Macomb County
04/26/2012
A rare form of cancer surfaces in Macomb County. It's not far from where a cancer cluster made several other kids sick in recent years.
Phase II/III Trial of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients
04/25/2012
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of ex vivo expanded autologous immune killer cells in treating hepatocellular carcinoma patients...
Phase 3 ADAPT Study in Patients with mRCC
04/25/2012
The international Phase 3 ADAPT study is expected to commence in mid-2012 under a revised Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) agreement with the FDA. This pivotal study will evaluate the addition of AGS-003 to standard therapy versus standard therapy alone.
Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma with Osteosarcoma Differentiation
04/24/2012
We present a 6th case of sarcomatoid chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, which had an osteosarcoma differentiation component. However, the correlation between the presence of heterologous elements and prognosis is unknown because of the rarity of this phenomenon.
Medicare advisory board bad medicine for Illinois
04/24/2012
It's an extraordinary amount of power to give fifteen unelected individuals.
Marlo Thomas: Hope on the Horizon
04/24/2012
Within the NIH, several investigators have now begun to demonstrate the effectiveness of such precision attacks on various cancers, including lymphoma, kidney cancer, and prostate cancer, among others.
Surgery Shows Promise in Lung Metastases
04/24/2012
The 301 patients included in the analysis consisted of 133 women and 168 men who had a median age of 64 (range of 11 to 86). Their lung metastases arose from more than a dozen types of cancer. Colorectal cancer accounted for a third of cases, followed by renal cell carcinoma (12%), melanoma (7%), breast cancer (6%), soft-tissue sarcoma (6%), head and neck carcinoma (6%), and lung cancer (6%).
CT appearances following laparoscopic partial nephrectomy
04/24/2012
There was no evidence of tumor recurrence in any of the patients.
Wilms' tumor (kidney cancer in children)
04/24/2012
Feeling frightened about one of your children having cancer is normal. The good news is that Wilms' tumour is curable in more than 9 out of 10 children (90%) diagnosed. [See: http://www.WilmsKids.org]
National Patient and Survivor Meeting Streaming Live on YouTube
04/11/2012
For the first time, the Kidney Cancer Association - M. D. Anderson National Patient & Survivor Meeting will be streamed live on YouTube.
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