With surgical techniques applicable to many stages of kidney cancer, it is important for patients to discuss these options with their cancer team to select the best approach for their disease. With ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — There are more than 780,000 people living with kidney disease. On average, 25,000 people will get a transplant each year; however, 90,000 people are still on the waitlist. Now, a ...

Patients with large polycystic kidneys in need of a kidney transplant can have their diseased kidneys safely removed laparoscopically at the same time as their transplant surgery. That is the finding ...

A 52-year-old man had a radical right colectomy for a sarcoma of the cecal wall (high grade of malignancy, 10 cells/field). On a postoperative computerized tomography (CT) scan 2 months later, a 3-cm ...

During robotic surgery, a surgeon uses the arms of a robot to help guide and operate surgical tools. Benefits include increased precision, a lower risk of side effects, and a shorter recovery time.

Robotic surgery compared favorably with standard surgery in a review and analysis of data from 1,375 patients who underwent surgery to remove cancer from the kidney and inferior vena cava. The ...

Unlike many other cancers, kidney cancer often presents with no early warning signs. It typically grows silently, and is frequently discovered incidentally during imaging for unrelated conditions.

Kidney cancer happens when cells in the kidney begin to grow and divide out of control. It ranks in the top 10 types of cancer that affect both men and women in the United States, according to the ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is among the most common organ failures observed in the hospital and can irrevocably alter the trajectory of a patient's short-term and long-term health.1–4 The lack of ...

Intuitive Surgical ($ISRG) touted a study in Health Affairs which found that its da Vinci surgical robot enables more minimally invasive partial nephrectomies to ...