The term "personalized medicine" remains an overused promise to apply specific treatment plans.
Innovative approaches offer the potential for effective treatments to limited target areas with improved side effect profiles.
A phase 3 trial has found pazopanib (Votrient) and sunitinib (Sutent) are both equally effective for treating metastatic kidney cancer.
Reduced risk of progression of localized renal cell carcinoma observed in patients on statins.
The 5-year disease-free and cancer-specific survival rates were 94.7% and 100%, respectively.
Study shows it can provide durable oncologic control with a low risk of tumor recurrence.
Risk is not eliminated if patients have risk factors for chronic kidney disease, such as hypertension and diabetes.
Only 17% and 20% of patients undergoing radical or partial nephrectomy, respectively, had a renal mass biopsy in advance of surgery.
Increment in renal parenchymal volume occurs within days after a kidney is removed from a living donor.
Technique provides a tissue diagnosis in 88% of cases, according to a study.
Data support the use of percutaneous cryoablation and radiofrequency ablation for small renal tumors.
In a small study, researchers show that ultrasound-guided transhepatic radiofrequency ablation is technically feasible.
Increasing health insurance coverage and access to usual source of care necessary to meet targets.
Researchers find a 23% increased risk of death among patients who received a transfusion during surgery or post-operative hospitalization.
Increased perinephric fat is associated with increased blood loss and operative time, study shows.
The estimated recurrence rate at 10 years was 88.3%, data show.
Seventeen percent of Americans think that there is nothing people can do to change their risk.
Benefits in cancer-linked symptoms mediated by lower Impact of Event Scale one month after intervention.
