Action to Cure Kidney Cancer

Ruth Love

It was my good fortune to become ill after a restaurant lunch in August 2000. The discomfort hung on for almost a week. At a visit to my internist, he confirmed my suspicion that I had food poisoning, but he also prescribed a sonogram just to make sure that nothing else was the culprit. What did show up was no other cause for the pain and discomfort, but a lesion on my right kidney, which required further investigation. An MRI the next month and a CT Scan in November pointed to renal cell carcinoma, requiring surgery.

Michael Kasper

My name is Michael Kasper and I live in Eastern Pennsylvania with my wife and two teenage sons. Prior to my diagnosis at age 58 I had no medical issues, never smoked, not overweight, never having been hospitalized, nor exposure to suspect chemicals. After my annual physicals each year, I would walk out of the doctor's office with a "big head" with the news of another great physical. Given the fact that my dad passed away at 91 and my mother lived to be 100; I assumed myself "untouchable".