Kidney cancer research reports

Every year, around 13,800 people are diagnosed with kidney cancer in the UK, that's 38 every day. More than 4,700 people die of the disease in the UK annually. It is most common among people who are over the age of 60. The Urology Foundation has a variety of funds for urology professionals. The reports below were funded by The Urology Foundation.

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CovidSurg-Cancer UROLOGY Follow-Up Study

Veeru Kasivisvanathan and Chuanyu Gao set out to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon patients diagnosed with urological (kidney, bladder and prostate) cancer in 2020.

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[RS] – Exploitation of the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor (HIF) pathway as an anti-cancer strategy for treatment of kidney cancer

Sarah Welsh was looking at the potential of a drug she identified called CL67 which may be able to slow kidney cancer

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[FULBRIGHT] – Investigating renal cancer metabolism using novel surgical models.

Cissy Yong spent three months in Texas as part of her research into renal cancer metabolism

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