1. As some kidney cancers cause hypertension an increased frequency of kidney cancer is to be expected in a hypertension clinic. 2. He had kidney cancer, with secondary tumours in the brain and lungs. 3. Although the improvement in survival was relatively small, longer benefits may come from trials involving newer immune drugs and surgery in advanced kidney cancer, Flanigan said. 4. Another company, Antigenics Inc., based in New York with a laboratory in Woburn, Mass., has developed a personalized vaccine for kidney cancer. 5. As for Williamson, he understands the drug might do little or nothing to stop his kidney cancer from advancing. 6. Before he died of kidney cancer last September, Shawn Walsh had told them they could win a third title. 7. Baylin and his colleagues first tested their hypothesis on the Von Hippel-Lindau gene, a tumor-suppressor gene that has been linked to kidney cancer. 8. Bone marrow transplantation, in which cells from a donor are given to a cancer patient, has not previously been used to treat kidney cancer. 9. -- Another experimental antibody, bevacizumab, slows tumor progression in kidney cancer patients by halting tumor blood supply, a process called angiogenesis. 10. A hundred women ended up in dialysis, their kidneys destroyed, say Belgian investigators, who add that some of these women are developing kidney cancer. |