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Kidney Cancer UK Patient Survey 2024 Report

Kidney Cancer UK Patient Survey 2024 Report

NEW REPORT FINDS KIDNEY CANCER PATIENTS ARE BEING MISDIAGNOSED, CONFUSED & UN-INFORMED Annual survey report from Kidney Cancer UK spotlights problematic communication gaps during kidney cancer diagnoses, and urges health professionals to be more proactive with...

Imaging Test Detects Aggressive and Treatment-resistant Cancers

Imaging Test Detects Aggressive and Treatment-resistant Cancers

Scientists have developed a new imaging test that could enable doctors to identify more dangerous tumours before they spread around the body – and tailor treatment accordingly. Teams at The University of Manchester and The Institute of Cancer Research, London describe...

Kidney Cancer UK Patient Survey 2024 Report

Kidney Cancer UK Patient Survey 2024 Report

NEW REPORT FINDS KIDNEY CANCER PATIENTS ARE BEING MISDIAGNOSED, CONFUSED & UN-INFORMED Annual survey report from Kidney Cancer UK spotlights problematic communication gaps during kidney cancer diagnoses, and urges health professionals to be more proactive with...

Whale Auction, 6th June 2014

Whale Auction, 6th June 2014

A number of whales has been donated in aid of James Whale MBE fund for Kidney Cancer, by celebrities, artists and TV presenters, which are available at our online auction. We have kept a few to be auctioned on 6th June at Clarendon Fine Art in London. All proceeds...

Whale Auction, 6th June 2014

London Kidney Cancer Patient Day 2014

12th November 2014, Hotel Ibis Styles, Southwark, London. This was the fourteenth patient day organised by the Kidney Cancer UK for English and Welsh patients and their families. Although the turnout was not as good as for previous patient days, the event was a...

Other Treatments

Other Treatments

Kidney Cancer UK have consulted professionals on the latest information about other treatment options for kidney cancer.

Kidney Cancer UK 2018 Survey Results

Kidney Cancer UK has released the results of its Kidney Cancer Survey 2018 which reveals 51 per cent of patients are diagnosed through scans unrelated to the disease amongst its findings.

Kidney Cancer UK call for approval of Nivolumab by NICE

Kidney Cancer UK call for approval of Nivolumab by NICE

This is our press release on the initial negative NICE recommendation for the availability of nivolumab through the NHS. Kidney Cancer UK are demanding NICE reconsider their initial recommendation not to allow use of nivolumab through the NHS for kidney cancer or lung...

Patient Survey Results Autumn 2018

SMC approves combination therapy for patients in Scotland

Kidney Cancer Scotland add their voice to those praising the Scottish Medicine Consortium's (SMC) approval of the therapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in combination with Inlyta (axitinib) for kidney cancer patients in Scotland. Following positive trials results, the news...

Imaging Test Detects Aggressive and Treatment-resistant Cancers

NICE rejects pembro+axitinib therapy for aRCC

Kidney cancer community strongly disagrees with NICE decision not to approve pembrolizumab with axitinib therapy Kidney Cancer UK, the UK’s largest kidney cancer charity is adding its voice of disappointment to the news that NICE have not approved the use of...

Home thoughts from abroad in lockdown

Home thoughts from abroad in lockdown

Allan Richardson is four years into his kidney cancer journey having had a radical nephrectomy in May 2016; Stage 1 grade 3 at Norfolk and Norwich hospital. He is currently being monitored for two lung nodules which his last three scans have classed as benign. In this...

Imaging Test Detects Aggressive and Treatment-resistant Cancers

Cryoablation Safe, Efficacious for Small Renal Tumors

Image-guided percutaneous cryoablation is a safe and efficacious treatment for selected small renal cell carcinoma (RRC) tumors, new findings published in the American Journal of Roentgenology confirm. Joint first authors Emma Lim, MBChB, and Shankar Kumar, MBBS,...

Kidney Cancer Patient Survey 2020 Report

2019 Kidney Cancer Patient Survey

Kidney Cancer UK’s 2019 patient survey shows UK kidney cancer patients hit by ‘diagnosis crisis’ that sees survival rates lag significantly behind rest of Europe. New research by Kidney Cancer UK reveals that five-year survival rates for the disease are substantially...

Whale Auction, 6th June 2014

Kidney Cancer Patient Survey 2018

Kidney Cancer UK and Kidney Cancer Scotland are proud to present our fifth annual kidney cancer survey which focuses exclusively on patients in the United Kingdom.

Imaging Test Detects Aggressive and Treatment-resistant Cancers

Evaluating the need for kidney cancer screening

By Dr Rebecca Case-Upton BSc (Hons), PhD Medical Publications A positive prognosis for kidney cancer is greatly increased if the disease is diagnosed at an earlier stage: People with stage 1 disease have an 80% chance of surviving five years. This decreases to 5% for...

Holiday time, be prepared & don’t get caught out by Brexit.

Holiday time, be prepared & don’t get caught out by Brexit.

Holidays; I don’t know about you, but I love planning them especially when the weather is so dismal! Dreaming of an escape from the norm and daily routine. Updated 15th August 2023 When you are having treatment for cancer going away from home becomes a little more...

Imaging Test Detects Aggressive and Treatment-resistant Cancers

Cabozantinib Bests Everolimus in RCC with Bone Metastases

Cabozantinib (Cabometyx) was more effective than everolimus (Afinitor) in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma and bone metastases, according to a subgroup analysis of a pivotal clinical trial. Data from that trial, called METEOR (Metastatic Renal Cell...

Imaging Test Detects Aggressive and Treatment-resistant Cancers

Vaccine for Renal Cancer Passes Early Test

A vaccine against metastatic renal cell carcinoma appears to have some activity in patients who receive engineered autologous dendritic cell infusions, researchers reported here at the International Kidney Cancer Symposium.

Kidney Cancer 2016 Annual Survey Results

Thank you to everyone who completed our 2016 annual survey, we had 111 responses. Your opinions and experiences are invaluable to us: they enable us to shape the support we provide for you and inform us of areas of concern so that we can campaign for improvements....

Home thoughts from abroad in lockdown

Mike Tunstall – My Kidney Cancer Story

It all started with a vague pain in my right testicle leading to me making an appointment with my GP in June 2009. Three months later, I found myself on the operating table having my whole kidney together with a large tumour completely removed. The surgery was...

2016 Kidney Cancer Patient Survey -CLOSED

Welcome to our Kidney Cancer Patient Survey 2016 Please click the image below which will open a new window for you to be able to complete the 2016 Kidney Cancer Patient Survey. We thank you for your time, it is much appreciated by us and the kidney cancer patients,...

Patient Survey Results Autumn 2018

SMC say NO to nivolumab

Kidney Cancer Scotland call for reversal of SMC nivolumab ‘no’ rulingfor kidney cancer patients on NHS Kidney Cancer Scotland is calling for the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) to reverse their announcment that they will not recommended the drug nivolumab for use...

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