Kidney cancer happens when cells in one or both kidneys start to grow out of control. Eventually, the cells become a mass called a tumor. As the cancer progresses, it can spread to other parts of the ...

Kidney cancer affects tens-of-thousands every year, but research and care advances are improving survival chances and quality of life for patients. Kidney cancer occurs more frequently than many ...

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) comprises 80% of all primary kidney malignancies and causes 90% of kidney cancer deaths. But it is notoriously tough to diagnose. RCC is not easily distinguished ...

Roberto Pili, MD, associate dean for cancer research and integrative oncology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is the principal investigator on a new five-year, $1.8 million ...

Cancer fighting T-cells, the immune system's primary enforcers, are scarce in the rare kidney cancer called chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (ChRCC) and those that are present are indifferent to the ...

Cancer before age 50 is rare, but increasing, in the United States, and researchers want to know why.Related video above: This specific type of cancer could double by 2040A new government study ...