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If you or your loved one has been diagnosed with kidney cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is ready to help. Our experienced team of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who treat kidney cancer is dedicated to providing the highest-quality screening, treatment, and care for our patients. Patients also have access to innovative therapies through our program of clinical trials.

In this section, you can find information about our expertise in treating patients with kidney cancer, the many treatment options we offer patients with this condition, and kidney cancer research currently underway at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

  • Our Approach & Expertise
    At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, patients with kidney cancer receive the most effective treatment while preserving as much kidney function as possible.
  • Our Team of Experts
    Our kidney cancer specialists, their education, training, board certifications, current publications, and specific areas of clinical expertise.
  • Overview
    Kidney cancer affects approximately 50,000 people in the United States each year. It occurs more often in men than in women.
  • Risk Factors
    Studies have shown that certain lifestyle factors can increase the risk of developing kidney tumors. Smoking, having high blood pressure, eating a high-fat diet, and being overweight all may contribute to an increased risk of kidney cancer.
  • Symptoms
    Kidney cancer usually shows no symptoms in the early stages. It is generally not suspected until the patient begins to experience symptoms, and at this point the tumor may have grown fairly large.
  • Diagnosis
    Most kidney tumors are found incidentally -- when patients are being evaluated with radiologic imaging studies for other non-specific abdominal complaints (gallbladder pain, for example), or during follow-up for other previously treated malignancies.
  • Treatment
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering physicians make treatment recommendations for kidney tumors based on the specific tumor size, location, and stage of the disease -- that is, how large the tumor has grown, how deeply it has invaded the kidney, and whether it has spread to nearby organs, lymph nodes, or another part of the body.
  • Our Clinical Trials
    A continually updated listing of Memorial Sloan-Kettering's current clinical trials for kidney cancer.
  • Survivorship & Support
    Because there is an approximately 5 percent chance of a tumor developing in the healthy kidney in the patient's lifetime, we recommend long-term follow-up.

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