Kidney Cancer News

A Keizer resident attending George Fox University recently received a scholarship from the American Cancer Society.

Rae Kaytor is is lobbying for public funding of Torisel a ' an intravenous drug that extends survival for patients with advanced kidney cancer.

President Obama places his hands on Debby Smith, 53, of Appalachia, Va., to cure her of her kidney cancer.

President Barack Obama wanted to put a human face on his plans to overhaul health care, and a Virginia supporter did just that Wednesday.

ANNANDALE, Va. -- President Barack Obama promised an uninsured woman struggling with kidney cancer that his health-care plan would help her and millions of Americans as he pressed his case for fixing the nation's health system.

A couple whose loved ones have struggled with cancer donated $25,000 to Gilda's Club, allowing the support organization to bring programs to Lowell five months sooner than expected.

Thousands of kidney cancer patients are likely to lose out on life-prolonging drugs.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Infants with HIV can die if they're given a standard tuberculosis vaccine, according to a three-year study conducted in South Africa.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Pfizer is discontinuing a late-stage study of its cancer drug Sutent as an initial treatment for colon cancer because the drug is not proving effective enough.

In an effort to raise funds for cancer survivors, a group of local country artists came together to perform a benefit concert.

The morning after surgery, Oliver Ware sat next to the bed in his room at Coliseum Medical Centers, wearing a patient's gown and drainage bag on his hip.

The United States has the most expensive and sophisticated health care system in the world, yet to many it appears broken.

Caleb Hawbaker of Hancock and Asher Hopkins of Leitersburg have never met, but this weekend's Relay for Life of Washington County will bring the two together for the first time.

Dr. Erik Castle is a board-certified urologist who joined the Mayo Clinic staff in Arizona in 2007.

The committee also compared information from epidemiologic studies with that from toxicologic studies and found similar health effects in both humans and animals for kidney cancer.

A terminally ill Frome man, who was given only a year to live, says an experimental drug has extended his life by more than three years.

EDAP TMS SA , the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, announced today that its High Intensity Focused Ultrasound technology was showcased at the 2nd Annual International Workshop on Focal Therapy and Imaging in Prostate Kidney Cancer.

PrognosDx Health, Inc. announced the receipt of an exclusive, worldwide license to the patent rights associated with The University of California, Los Angeles technology discovered by Dr.

Teacher Chriss Koch, a cancer survivor, from St. Clement s Catholic school stands in front of a fundraising thermometer for Relay for Life, which shows her students success - " they raised $6,000. Paloma Migone Chriss Koch was an athletic, young, first year GPRC student who considered herself healthy and active.

Not the same old song. That's what Linda Watts was after when she started a series of songwriter nights in Jackson in the late 1980s.