An investigator at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received international recognition for innovative imaging ...

January 10, 2008 — Most patients found to have a small kidney tumor, between 2 and 4 cm in size, have the whole kidney removed. However, new findings suggest that for younger patients a partial ...

The decision to undergo partial instead of radical nephrectomy should be individualized, according to investigators. In patients with localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC), nephron-sparing partial ...

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common inherited cause of end-stage renal failure, characterised by progressive cyst formation that distorts renal architecture and ...

Source: Getty Images The widespread use of standard laparoscopic procedures has been constrained by the technical difficulties presented by patients with PKD who have massively enlarged and cystic ...

Prediction of response to sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) using mass spectrometry-based (phospho) proteomics. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2021 ASCO Annual ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Findings showed no significant differences in surgical outcomes among age groups. Mortality rates were highest ...

For most children with renal masses, the standard of care has long been to remove the entire affected kidney- which is the protocol for Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer in children. But is ...

Systematic review and REMARK scoring of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) prognostic circulating biomarker manuscripts. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. This ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nephrectomy can be effectively performed in patients with autosomal dominant PKD for various indications, such ...

PN and RFA offer similar survival for cT1a RCC tumors ≤2 cm, but PN is superior for larger tumors. RFA may be considered for elderly patients with comorbidities, especially for tumors ≤2 cm. PN ...