Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body's biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the heart.
A new study attempts to perform a comparative single-cell census of human kidneys employing samples from individuals suffering from acute kidney injury and controls without the condition.
For most children with renal masses, the standard of care has long been to remove the entire affected kidney- which is the protocol for Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer in children.