Banner University Medicine Tucson has reached a milestone by completing its first robotic-assisted living donor nephrectomy.

University of Iowa Health announced in early February 2026 that it had successfully completed its first robotic living donor nephrectomy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adding belzutifan to pembrolizumab after kidney cancer surgery cuts recurrence risk by 28%, helping high-risk patients stay ...

Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) led to a lower rate of complications compared with open partial nephrectomy (OPN) in patients with intermediate- or high-complexity kidney tumors, the ...

A large national study in Denmark following nearly 1,900 patients over almost a decade found that a minimally invasive ...

The Kidney Cancer Risk Equation for predicting post-nephrectomy ESKD builds on the ubiquitous Kidney Failure Risk Equation and is easy to use, according to investigators. Investigators have created a ...

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 ...

We are continuing to see an increase in the incidence of kidney cancer in younger patients over time. Maintaining kidney health involves basic lifestyle choices: avoiding obesity, not smoking, and ...