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Kidney Cancer

Kidney Cancer Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Kidney Cancer.

Results 1 - 20 of 366 in Kidney Cancer

  1. Chris Cooper's battleRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | Westland Observer

    ... Chris, who lives with his mom and 12-year-old brother, Nick, in Highland, is battling Wilms tumor, a pediatric kidney cancer. He was diagnosed in November, just days after complaining of a belly ache and then suddenly developing an extremely swollen ...

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Highland, NY, Wilms Tumor

  2. Crusty Patient Helps Shape Doctor's CareerRead the original story

    Tuesday | WBUR-AM Boston

    ... go well. The cancer had spread. The other doctors saw Dick's condition as dire, and they wanted to treat his kidney cancer. Dick had other ideas. He just wanted to go home. Mitchell says she began to feel she had "cast him adrift on a raft in a ...

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    Related Topix: Gloucester, MA, Medicine, Multiple Sclerosis, Health

  3. Suspected Cancer Cluster Angers N.J. Town Residents

    Tuesday Dec 29 | Fox News

    ... on FOX & Friends Tuesday morning. When asked why mostly men in her town are dying at an incredible rate from kidney cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - she pointed to DuPont. "It's the fault of the DuPont Corporations weapons site," Sisco told Fox ...

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    Related Topix: Pompton Lakes, NJ, Lymphoma, Health, Passaic County, NJ

  4. Heart risk from child cancersRead the original story

    Sunday Dec 27 | Garforth Today

    ... after treatment. The types of cancer looked at by the study were Hodgkina s and non-Hodgkina s lymphomas, kidney cancer, bone cancer, neuroblastoma (a cancer of nerve cells) and soft tissue sarcoma (cancer of connective tissue). The participantsa ...

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, University of Minnesota, Bone Cancer, Sarcoma

  5. Bar owner battles cancer, still whips up free supperRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday Dec 25 | SavannahNow

    ... don't have any reason not to do it." Gene said Cathy - a breast cancer survivor - was recently diagnosed with kidney cancer, and the day after surgery she was in the bar putting up Christmas decorations. "I said, 'Are you crazy, dear?'" he said of ...

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  6. Heggins feisty in face of cancerRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Dec 24 | Denton Record-Chronicle

    ... affairs. Charlye Heggins Heggins, 76, was diagnosed this fall with end-stage renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, and is treating the disease with surgery and an oral chemotherapy drug, she said. She's been hospitalized several times, most ...

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    Related Topix: Denton, TX, Health, Medicine, Breast Cancer

  7. Heggins feisty in face of cancerRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Denton Record-Chronicle

    ... on city affairs. Heggins, 76, was diagnosed this fall with end-stage renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, and is treating the disease with surgery and an oral chemotherapy drug, she said. She's been hospitalized several times, most ...

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    Related Topix: Denton, TX, Health, Medicine, Breast Cancer

  8. A gift of compassion

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Citrus County Chronicle

    ... that was wavering. They knew it was a long shot, but Fran, 59, and Lawrence, 63, who is battling terminal kidney cancer, needed a way to get to Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa on a regular basis. As a last resort, the Lecanto couple sent out letters ...

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    Related Topix: Health, Lecanto, FL, Wedding, Homosassa, FL, Crystal River, FL

  9. Gift of life this Christmas for Cromford coupleRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Matlock Today

    ... to be the first person in the UK to receive the drug, which was approved by NICE for patients with advanced kidney cancer but not neuroendocrine, for his type of tumours. The former care assistant, from Cromford, will undergo further treatment with ...

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  10. Cancer patient who paid for own drugs gets rid of tumours

    Wednesday Dec 23 | News, Sport, Entertainment, Jobs, Cars and Homes from Derbyshire

    ... or even get rid of dozens of tumours on his lungs. So far this has cost 12,068. Sunitinib is used to treat kidney cancer patients on the NHS but not usually people with Ian's condition. Now the 40-year-old has been given the results of a scan at ...

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    Related Topix: Health

  11. Firefighters Help Those In Need

    Tuesday Dec 22 | WXMI

    ... they helped put a smile of the face of a little girl battling cancer. Allison Pyle was diagnosed with lung and kidney cancer when she was just three-years-old. The little girl is now five-years-old. The Axemen's latest fundraiser was for her. They ...

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    Related Topix: Grand Rapids, MI, Health

  12. Heart risk from child cancersRead the original story

    Tuesday Dec 22 | Tyrone Today

    ... after treatment. The types of cancer looked at by the study were Hodgkina s and non-Hodgkina s lymphomas, kidney cancer, bone cancer, neuroblastoma (a cancer of nerve cells) and soft tissue sarcoma (cancer of connective tissue). The participantsa ...

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, University of Minnesota, Bone Cancer, Sarcoma

  13. NHS watchdog is winning the price war with drug companies

    Monday Dec 21 | The Independent

    ... drugs in order to get them approved by Nice. Similar deals were done in August with the makers of a drug for kidney cancer and in June for multiple myeloma. One drugs expert said: "Whereas in the past companies went off in a huff when Nice refused ...

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    Related Topix: Cancer, Medicine, Health, Sarcoma

  14. TV's Stephen Andrew fights cancer diagnosisRead the original story

    Sep 15, 2007 | Montreal Gazette

    ... his doctor there and then. A few tests later - a cystoscopy, ultrasound and CT scan - he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. It was Nov. 15. He was told he had a 10-centimetre tumour. It was big but Andrew didn't know how big. The measurement meant ...

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    Related Topix: Health, Oncology, Medicine, Bone Cancer, North America, Canada, World News

  15. Coney Hall: Head shaving to help daughter's cancer battle raises thousands

    Monday Dec 21 | Newsshopper.co.uk

    A COMPASSIONATE mother who shaved her head so her daughter would be less scared about battling kidney cancer has raised thousands for other families.

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  16. Bravery award for young Holly

    Monday Dec 21 | Kettering Today

    ... showed during her fight against cancer. Eight-year-old Holly Hadley, of Rushden, was diagnosed with a type of kidney cancer that affects children, called Wilms' tumour, when she was three. The South End Junior School pupil was in and out of hospital ...

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    Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom, Northamptonshire County, England, Rushden, England, Bedfordshire County, England, Health

  17. Firefighters Try to Grant Girl's WishRead the original story

    Friday Dec 18 | WXMI

    ... Rapids Fire Department. His daughter, Allison, was three years old when she was diagnosed with both lung and kidney cancer. She's been in and out of the hospital for the past two years, undergoing chemotherapy and losing one of her kidneys. At one ...

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    Related Topix: Grand Rapids, MI, Health

  18. We're winning the war on cancerRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday Dec 18 | Telegraph.co.uk

    ... cancer care will become a significant problem. Already we have seen inequity in access to the drugs Sutent for kidney cancer and Avastin for colon cancer. For the moment, these drugs are only palliative, adding just a few months to life. But the ...

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  19. Possible Cancer Cluster Has N.J. Residents FearfulRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Dec 17 | WCBS-TV New York

    ... upstairs. Michael, turns out had cancer of the throat." The elevated types of cancer found in the area are kidney cancer in women and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in men. But the state along with DuPont caution: "The report could not conclusively link the ...

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    Related Topix: Pompton Lakes, NJ, Lymphoma

  20. Heart risk from child cancersRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 17 | Hutton Cranswick Today

    ... after treatment. The types of cancer looked at by the study were Hodgkina s and non-Hodgkina s lymphomas, kidney cancer, bone cancer, neuroblastoma (a cancer of nerve cells) and soft tissue sarcoma (cancer of connective tissue). The participantsa ...

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, University of Minnesota, Bone Cancer, Sarcoma