NEW YORK, September 5, 2006 -- For forty years, the gold standard for treating a single, small tumor in the kidney has been to remove the entire kidney. A retrospective study, which appears in the ...

Nephron-sparing surgery may not reduce the risk for later kidney failure in patients with kidney cancer and stage 4 CKD. Despite the promise of nephron-sparing, new study findings suggest that the ...

The probability of surgical success with telesurgery for radical prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy for small renal masses was non-inferior to local robotic surgery in a small randomized trial. The ...

Nephron-sparing management is one strategy to reduce risks, according to investigators. Older age is significantly associated with greater kidney function decline after radical nephrectomy in patients ...

Stage 2 kidney cancer involves a tumor over 7 cm, confined to the kidney, often treated surgically. Diagnosis includes imaging, blood tests, and possibly biopsy to confirm cancer type and stage.

Impact of Comprehensive Genome Profiling on the Management of Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: Preliminary Results From the Lung Cancer Cohort of the FPG500 Program Consecutive patients who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower rates of adverse outcomes were linked to higher technical skill Surgeons with higher scores had lower ...

Resistance to chemotherapy is typically associated with poor outcomes for patients with cancer. However, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists demonstrated that in bilateral Wilms tumor ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A fully automated artificial intelligence approach predicted post-nephrectomy glomerular ...

Frequency of the Bcl-2/IgH Rearrangement in Normal Individuals: Implications for the Monitoring of Disease in Patients With Follicular Lymphoma PURPOSE: Because interferon gave promising results in ...