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Kidney cancer treatment and research at Dana-Farber

More than 36,000 cases of kidney cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2005, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). The ACS projects that more than 12,600 kidney cancer patients will die from the disease this year.

Dana-Farber's Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology is a multidisciplinary and multispecialty care and treatment center, as well as a cutting-edge research facility. Their focus is to provide expert, compassionate, and state-of-the-art care, as well as to offer patients options that include experimental treatments. They treat all genitourinary malignancies, including cancers of the prostate, testes, bladder and kidney.

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Kidney cancer incidence and mortality rates are nearly twofold higher for men than for women.

Roughly $1.9 billion each year is spent in the U.S. on treatment of patients with kidney cancer.

Symptoms of kidney cancer include blood in urine, pain in the side that does not go away, unexplained weight loss, fever, and a lump or mass in the side of the abdomen.

Risk factors for kidney cancer include smoking, obesity, long-term dialysis, high blood pressure, Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome and gender (male).

(Source:National Cancer Institute)