Renal Cancer

Chase Cooper, a Kentucky man battling stage 4 renal cell cancer, urgently needed a kidney transplant. His wife, Kaila Cooper, turned to social media, specifically Facebook, to seek a donor.

A team of doctors led by Dr Dushyant Nadar, the hospital's director of urology and renal transplant, conducted the procedure in four hours.

Kidney cancer usually begins as a tumor within the kidney. As these tumors grow larger, they affect the ability of kidneys to filter blood.

Vitamin D deficiency has been found common in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) -- the longstanding disease of the kidneys leading to renal failure.

It was past midnight. I was just settling in my bed with my three-year-old. My lawyer wife was sifting through some case papers and we were pestering her to switch off the lights. My phone rang. It was an my childhood friend Rashid, who has lived in Dubai for some years and works as a salesperson with a bank.

Women who start their families early and those who have lots of kids have a higher risk of developing the most common type of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma.

Eating red meat increases a person's risk of developing the most common type of kidney cancer, while eating vegetables has a protective effect.

Alcohol consumption may lower the risk of developing kidney cancer.

A diet rich in refined cereals, bread in particular, is associated with an elevated risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the main type of kidney cancer.

Eating fatty fish like salmon, mackerel and herring at least once a week significantly lowers the risk of kidney cancer in women.

The risk of developing a type of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma, is directly related to body mass index (BMI).

Babies born after fertility treatment run increased risk of genetic disorder. According to a recent study, children conceived through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment run four times the normal risk of a rare genetic imprinting disorder, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), which causes gigantism and increases the risk of childhood renal cancer.

Chase Cooper, a Kentucky man battling stage 4 renal cell cancer, urgently needed a kidney transplant. His wife, Kaila Cooper, turned to social media, specifically Facebook, to seek a donor.

A team of doctors led by Dr Dushyant Nadar, the hospital's director of urology and renal transplant, conducted the procedure in four hours.

Kidney cancer usually begins as a tumor within the kidney. As these tumors grow larger, they affect the ability of kidneys to filter blood.

Vitamin D deficiency has been found common in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) -- the longstanding disease of the kidneys leading to renal failure.

It was past midnight. I was just settling in my bed with my three-year-old. My lawyer wife was sifting through some case papers and we were pestering her to switch off the lights. My phone rang. It was an my childhood friend Rashid, who has lived in Dubai for some years and works as a salesperson with a bank.

Women who start their families early and those who have lots of kids have a higher risk of developing the most common type of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma.

Eating red meat increases a person's risk of developing the most common type of kidney cancer, while eating vegetables has a protective effect.

Alcohol consumption may lower the risk of developing kidney cancer.

A diet rich in refined cereals, bread in particular, is associated with an elevated risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the main type of kidney cancer.

Eating fatty fish like salmon, mackerel and herring at least once a week significantly lowers the risk of kidney cancer in women.

The risk of developing a type of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma, is directly related to body mass index (BMI).

Babies born after fertility treatment run increased risk of genetic disorder. According to a recent study, children conceived through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment run four times the normal risk of a rare genetic imprinting disorder, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS), which causes gigantism and increases the risk of childhood renal cancer.