Nephron-sparing surgery may not reduce the risk for later kidney failure in patients with kidney cancer and stage 4 CKD. Despite the promise of nephron-sparing, new study findings suggest that the ...

Surgery to remove a cancerous kidney can often lengthen the lives of patients receiving targeted therapy for metastatic kidney cancer, but only about three in ten such patients undergo the procedure, ...

Dr. Hyung L. Kim discusses how the addition of cytoreductive nephrectomy to ICI therapy may affect survival and quality of life those with kidney cancer. A cytoreductive nephrectomy is a surgery which ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . First phase 3 study to show a survival benefit with adjuvant therapy in kidney cancer. Adjuvant pembrolizumab ...

UAB Division of Transplantation Professor and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Michael Hanaway, M.D., has recently been featured on UAB MedCast. During the episode, Hanaway discusses ...

Despite the evolution of systemic therapy from the immunotherapy to targeted therapy eras, surgical management remains a mainstay of treatment of patients with locally advanced, lymph node–positive, ...

Robotic and minimally invasive kidney cancer surgery may reduce pain, shorten recovery time and preserve kidney function, according to Dr. Armine Smith. Robotic and minimally invasive surgery for ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower rates of adverse outcomes were linked to higher technical skill Surgeons with higher scores had lower ...

Immunotherapy and targeted therapy are often the first lines of treatment for advanced kidney cancer, with surgery and radiation also possible.

TRENTON, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Surgery to remove a tumor from New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's kidney was a success, the state's lieutenant governor said. Murphy is now resting at a hospital in New ...

In the partial nephrectomy group, patients with a history of CT had numerically higher rates of overall complications; critical care therapies; acute kidney injury; pulmonary, gastrointestinal, and ...