HOW TO TAKE THE POST-TEST: To obtain CME credit, please click here after reading the article to take the post-test on myCME.com. Nephrologists routinely use biopsy of the kidney for making diagnoses ...

October 4, 2006 -- A new study showed that over the past 20 years, greater numbers of small kidney tumors are being detected and surgically excised, yet incidence and mortality rates of kidney cancer ...

Many benign kidney tumors don’t cause symptoms. But when symptoms do occur, they can include blood in the urine and pain in the lower back or between the ribs and hips. Benign kidney tumors are ...

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) can effectively treat small benign tumors in a single session, and long-term outcomes of RFA for renal tumors depend on tumor size, according to the findings of two ...

Symptoms of stage 3 RCC vary; some patients experience blood in the urine, flank pain, fatigue, weight loss, or a palpable abdominal mass, whereas others are diagnosed incidentally during imaging for ...

The prognostic value of Meet-URO score in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma receiving second or third-line tyrosine kinase inhibitors/immune checkpoint inhibitors combination ...

Conventional imaging studies such as ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging are increasingly detecting small renal masses, which are interpreted by radiologists as highly ...

After their advanced kidney tumors were surgically removed, nine patients were protected from the cancer returning thanks to an experimental, personalized cancer vaccine, researchers reported Feb. 5.