
We’re committed to our mission of finding new treatments that may help improve the lives of people with cancerCancerAbnormal cells that grow out of control [may invade other tissues and may spread into other parts of the body]; Also called malignancy.. Our clinical trials for kidney cancer study investigational medications alone, or in combination with other study medications, or standard of careStandard of care (Standard Treatment)Accepted or approved treatment for a condition (disease or illness); treatment usually given to people for a condition (disease or illness) at the time; the treatment for a condition that is accepted and widely used by health care professionals at the timetherapy. We perform these trials to see if they can help prevent, find, or treat cancer.
Kidney Cancer is cancer that starts in the kidney. Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer and forms in very small tubes of the kidney.
Symptoms usually do not appear until the tumorTumorA mass or growth that forms in the body that can be cancer (malignant) or not cancer (benign). Also called neoplasm may already be large and metastaticMetastatic, MetastasesCancer that has spread from where it started to other parts of the body. Gross or microscopic hematuriaHematuriaBlood in urine is the most common symptom to appear, followed by flank pain, and a large mass.