St. Jude Study Offers New Hope For Children With Kidney Tumors Deemed Inoperable

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital physicians have demonstrated that children with bilateral Wilms tumor, a cancer of the kidneys, can retain normal function in both kidneys by undergoing a procedure called bilateral nephron-sparing surgery, even when preoperative scans suggest that the tumors are inoperable. Between 1999 and 2006, all St.

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Filed under: Urology on April 3rd, 2008