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Clinical trial demonstrates safety of new approach to treat invasive kidney cancer
A new approach using precisely targeted, high-dose radiation to treat invasive kidney cancer proves safe, based on a clinical trial by the UT Southwestern Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center s kidney cancer program. The study, published in the
International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, could offer new hope for patients with a historically dismal condition.
Among the top 10 cancers in the U.S., most kidney cancers are renal cell carcinoma (RCC). While many cases are caught early, in about 30 percent of patients RCC has invaded or spread at the time of diagnosis. Kidney cancers have the uncanny ability to penetrate draining blood vessels, which become channels for their growth and expansion.