by Jay Bitkower | Dec 31, 2022 | Kidney Cancer News
On December 30, President Biden signed the FY2023 Omnibus Bill, which includes $50 million for the Kidney Cancer Research Program for this fiscal year ending on September 30, 2023. That brings the total funding for kidney cancer research, since 2006 when ACKC started...
by ACKC | Nov 10, 2022 | Kidney Cancer News
A study done by researchers working for the American Cancer Society (ACS), found that 30% of the cancer deaths in the U.S., or over 122,000 smokers in 2019, were caused by cigarette smoking. Further, smoking led to over two million total person-years of lost life as...
by ACKC | Aug 2, 2022 | Kidney Cancer News
A group of researchers and doctors belonging to the OnCovid Study Group published a retrospective study of survival rate and other factors, in Europe, of vaccinated versus unvaccinated cancer patients. The article was published in the June 2, 2022 issue of Lancet...
by Jay Bitkower | Jun 1, 2022 | Kidney Cancer News
Editor’s Note: The following is an essay by Stephen J. Gould, a leading evolutionary biologist on the faculties of Harvard and New York University. In 1982, he was diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma and found out through his research into the disease that the...
by ACKC | Jan 2, 2022 | Kidney Cancer News
Reposted from October 2019 — William Kaelin, Dana Farber Institute, Boston, and two other scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine today for their work on the body’s awareness and response to the level of oxygen available to its cells, especially low...
