Kidney Cancer

A report, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, looks at the outcomes in children and adolescents with cancer, hoping to provide insights that will guide future research.

Camp Friendship offers a week-long residential camp free of charge for kids with cancer.

The Childhood Cancer Foundation in Canada recognized the unique needs of teens with cancer and created Teen Connector, a Facebook-style website.

Drug news and recent developments

New therapy available for renal cell carcinoma and first maintenance therapy is approved for lung cancer.

Kids with cancer, their siblings, and parents learn relaxation, meditation, and breathing techniques.

Although renal cell carcinoma is the most common type, there are other types of kidney cancer.

Parents can help ease the transition from school to clinic and back again.

There are several organizations and institutions that have prepared school-related documents and checklists for parents of childhood cancer patients.

The human body sometimes produces its own immune response to renal cell carcinoma that results in spontaneous disease remission.

With no standard screening test for kidney cancer and few symptoms until it’s advanced, early-stage disease is often discovered by accident when imaging scans, such as computed tomography, are used to look for other medical problems.

Renal cell carcinoma is the most common type of kidney cancer, comprising more than 90 percent of all kidney cancers.

Childhood cancer survivors need long-term surveillance to keep up with late-term effects, screenings, and other health-related issues.

Researchers identify what survivors need to get physically active.

Childhood cancer survivors find lifelong care at ACE program.

New drug therapies aid in the treatment of prostate cancer, glioblastoma, and renal cell carcinoma.

CURE chooses the winning essay for it 2009 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing.

Reorienting kids to their academic and social lives after cancer.

Are we closer to treating advanced kidney cancer as a chronic disease?

New therapies are making headway in a difficult-to-treat cancer.

The risk of secondary cancers in childhood cancer survivors and what survivors can do to protect themselves.

Childhood cancer survivors skip needed mammograms

Childhood cancer patients make their mark in art exhibit

What I didn't know then about childhood cancer.

New law funds pediatric cancer research.

Updates from the 2008 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology includes news on lung, breast, colorectal, and kidney cancers.

Childhood cancer garners sympathy from all, but drug development from few.

Adult cancers are biologically different from childhood cancer, resulting in different treatments and different success rates.

Researchers explore ways to improve drug evaluations in pediatric clinical trials.

Advocates are working together to increase awareness and research in childhood cancers.