New test method to detect kidney cancers

A novel liquid biopsy method can detect kidney cancers with high accuracy, including small, localized tumors which are often curable but for which no early detection method exists.

Richard Saltus • harvard
June 22, 2020 • ~4 min

Novel drug targets tumor growth in advanced kidney cancer

Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a novel targeted drug that shows promise in advanced kidney cancer by interfering with the abnormal blood vessel formation that fuels tumor growth.

Richard Saltus • harvard
Feb. 12, 2020 • ~4 min

Cellular glitch may lead to kidney cancer in kids

A problem in the body's gene-regulatory process may cause normal cells to turn malignant and produce Wilms' tumor, the most common children's kidney cancer.

Katherine Fenz-Rockefeller • futurity
Dec. 20, 2019 • ~4 min

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