http://kidneycancersite.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:44:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Because treatment may damage healthy cells and tissues, unwanted side effects are common. These side effects depend mainly on the type and extent of the treatment. Side effects may not be the same for each person, and they may change from one treatment session to the next. Before treatment starts, ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/kidney-cancer-2/ A new way to provide clear images of cancerous tumors in the kidney during surgery promises to help physicians preserve as much kidney function as possible while still removing all the malignant tissue – a significant advance as doctors discover that saving as much healthy kidney tissue as possible is ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/glowing-dye-improves-cancer-removal-in-kidney/ To identify potential molecular determinants of tumor biology and possible clinical outcomes, global gene-expression patterns were analyzed in the primary tumors of patients with metastatic renal cell cancer by using cDNA microarrays. We used grossly dissected tumor masses that included tumor, blood vessels, connective tissue, and infiltrating immune cells to ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/predicting-survival-in-patients-with-metastatic-kidney-cancer-by-gene-expression-profiling-in-the-primary-tumor/ Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston concluded that women and men who drank an average of one alcoholic beverage a day were about 30 percent less likely to develop renal cell cancer than non-drinkers. This reduced risk was seen in people who drank beer, wine or liquor. The findings ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/moderate-drinking-may-lower-kidney-cancer-risk/ A heat-based technique called "CT-guided radiofrequency ablation" was almost 100 percent successful in destroying small malignant kidney tumors in a study of more than 100 patients, new research shows. Radiofrequency ablation has been used successful in liver tumors since the early 1990s. A needle-like treatment probe, guided by computer tomography (CT), ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/tumor-zapping-technique-fights-kidney-cancer/ Introduction Kidney cancer is a condition in which one or more types of cells in the kidney become cancerous or “malignant”. These cells begin to grow uncontrollably and invade the surrounding tissues. Eventually they spread throughout the body or “metastasize”. Distinguishing the Types There are well over a dozen different types of ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/what-should-i-know-about-kidney-cancer/ Cancer of the kidneys, also known a renal cancer, can be cured if detected early. However, symptoms may not occur until the tumor has become large or metastasized (spread to other organs), when it is difficult to treat. The majority of kidney cancers are renal cell carcinomas, also known as ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/kidney-cancer/ New drugs could help patients with advanced kidney cancer live much longer, experts claimed this month. Renal cell cancer, the commonest form of kidney cancer, affecting around 200,000 people worldwide each year, is currently difficult to manage in its advanced or metastatic stage (mRCC). Around a third of patients already ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/metastatic-renal-cell-cancer-could-become-a-chronic-rather-than-fatal-disease/ Radiation has a limited role in the treatment of kidney cancer. Kidney tumors are not very sensitive to radiation, but healthy kidneys are, so radiation as a frontline treatment is not viable. Radiation may be used as a palliative treatment, to ease pain and other symptoms of advanced kidney cancer ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/radiation-therapy/ Kidney cancer is highly resistant to the chemotherapy drugs traditionally used to fight other cancers and is often not detected early enough for any form of treatment to be curable, so it is no surprise that most kidney cancer patients don't live long enough to truly be considered 'survivors.' Two ... http://kidneycancersite.com/2008/04/21/new-drugs-provide-options-in-kidney-cancer-treatment/