Optimizing Your Kidney Health

Join us on October 10th for our next Town Hall event! Learn how treatments, surgeries, and even common conditions can impact your kidney function, and what you can do to stay healthy.

Kidney Cancer & the Military: Understanding the Connection

Military personnel are at a higher risk for developing kidney cancer due to exposure to toxins. Learn how the 2022 PACT Act helps veterans with kidney cancer.

Kidney Cancer Research Summit

KCRS23 was held earlier in July, but you can now view the video from the event. Don’t miss out next year – pre-registration is now open!

Making the Most of More Time: Stories of Survivorship

In a moderated discussion, patients reflect on their kidney cancer diagnosis, living fully, getting support, and making the most of their time.

Patient Resource Center

A kidney cancer diagnosis can be scary and confusing. You’re not alone. KidneyCAN has put together valuable resources to help you navigate a new diagnosis, your treatment options, and living well with cancer.
Making Progress Toward Cures

Our Goals

  • Provide education, resources, and support to kidney cancer patients and caregivers
  • Identify patients’ and researchers’ unmet needs
  • Engage and educate policymakers on the urgency of kidney cancer research funding
  • Urge Congress to fund kidney cancer research
  • Increase CDMRP Kidney Cancer Research Program and NIH funding through advocacy
  • Provide direct funding to promising ideas
  • Propel collaboration and progress in kidney cancer research (Kidney Cancer Research Summit)
  • Grow the community of kidney cancer researchers
  • Support the development of new treatments by educating patients on trial access and enrollment
  • Identify new unmet needs, set new goals, and keep working

Our Mission

Our mission is to accelerate cures for kidney cancer. We engage in patient advocacy and power research by supporting government and industry research funding, facilitating research collaborations, and offering direct financial support for clinical and laboratory researchers with promising ideas. Together, we can find the cure.

NEWLY DIAGNOSED?

You’re not alone. We’ve put together a Patient Resource Center to help you navigate a new diagnosis and beyond. Learn about kidney cancer, various treatment options, patient education events, and how to live well with cancer.  

BUILD A CARE TEAM

One of the best decisions you can make when facing kidney cancer is to choose an experienced medical team. We’ve put together resources including a checklist of questions for your doctor and a list of NCI comprehensive cancer centers.

Understanding Your Kidney Cancer Diagnosis

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Building a Care Team

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Treatment & Trial Options

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Living Well with Kidney Cancer

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Join Our Grassroots Army

You might not realize how important it is for the kidney cancer community to advocate in order to make progress toward cures.

What are we advocating for?

Awareness? Funding? Research? Cures?

The answer is — we are advocating for all of those things. We know that awareness of kidney cancer and its impact on many lives leads to a sense of urgency, a desire for solutions. Awareness leads to advocacy, and advocacy — joining to speak as one voice — leads to funding and research. That’s how we get to cures.

Thank you @SenatorTester from Duane and Debbie Talcott and Granddaughter Scarlett for your support for cancer research funding and continuing telehealth. @kidneycan

Watch as @AdamPhilipStern and @DrChoueiri delve into the highlights of the #KCRS23 meeting and explain why this event stands out as their favorite in the kidney cancer community.

https://youtu.be/h63_6JONPDI

🎥 NEW VIDEO ALERT! Dive into the highlights of the KCRS23 meeting with Dr. Adam Stern, a #kidneycancer warrior, and Dr. Toni Choueiri from Dana-Farber, a leading voice in kidney cancer research. Discover why KCRS23 is a pivotal event in the kidney cancer community.

For an in-depth look ...at all the groundbreaking presentations, slides, and videos from KCRS23, visit: https://kcrs.kidneycan.org/kcrs23-presentations-video-slides/

Stay informed and be a part of the change in kidney cancer research!

#KCRS23 #KidneyCancerResearch

Thank you to Senator Jon Tester for meeting with the KidneyCAN delegation for #AdvocacyDays this week. Senator Tester supports robust funding for #kidneycancer research and champions access to telehealth.

🎥 NEW VIDEO ALERT! Dive into the highlights of the KCRS23 meeting with Dr. Adam Stern, a #kidneycancer warrior, and Dr. Toni Choueiri from Dana-Farber, a leading voice in kidney cancer research. Discover why KCRS23 is a pivotal event in the kidney cancer community.

For an in-depth look ...at all the groundbreaking presentations, slides, and videos from KCRS23, visit: https://kcrs.kidneycan.org/kcrs23-presentations-video-slides/

Stay informed and be a part of the change in kidney cancer research!

#KCRS23 #KidneyCancerResearch

https://youtu.be/h63_6JONPDI

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KCRS23 Meeting Insights: A Patient & Researcher Perspective with Dr. Adam Stern & Dr. Toni Choueiri

NOTE: Watch all KCRS23 presentations and view slides at https://kcrs.kidneycan.org/kcrs23-presentations-video-slides/Join Dr. Adam Stern, a brave...

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KCRS23 Meeting Insights: A Patient & Researcher Perspective with Dr. Adam Stern & Dr. Toni Choueiri

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Join an engaging conversation with @MoffittNews Cancer Center’s world-renowned GU Oncology Program.

· pioneering discoveries in research
· development of new clinical trials targeted at bladder & #kidneycancer

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Just in @JournalCancer 👉In a large multicenter prospective cohort of mRCC #kidneycancer active surveillance was pursued by >25% pts. 👇Congrats @MRHarrisonMD @Daniel_J_George https://t.co/XGvEgFztt5 Need biomarkers to characterize these pts @OncoAlert @urotoday

I never wanted kidney cancer, but I have met extraordinary people I would have never had the privilege to know @kidneycan

When we formed KidneyCAN in 2016, the amount of money Congress allocated specifically for kidney cancer research was $0. Through advocacy, we’ve generated $235 million in research funding in six years. That’s the power of a unified voice!

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Chuck Stravin: “With Time Comes Hope”

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KidneyCAN is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit and does not receive any funding through the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) or KCRP (Kidney Cancer Research Program). Our work is funded by grassroots donors in the kidney cancer community. 

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Dr. Yousef Zakharia: “I Believe in Teamwork”

Dr. Yousef Zakharia: “I Believe in Teamwork”

For this Community Spotlight feature, we spoke to Dr. Yousef Zakharia, a medical oncologist at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate professor at the University of Iowa. Dr. Zakharia shares important information about finding the best care at NCI-designated centers, as well as his...

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Dr. Yousef Zakharia: “I Believe in Teamwork”

Dr. Yousef Zakharia: “I Believe in Teamwork”

For this Community Spotlight feature, we spoke to Dr. Yousef Zakharia, a medical oncologist at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate professor at the University of Iowa. Dr. Zakharia shares important information about finding the best care at NCI-designated centers, as well as his...

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Dr. Yousef Zakharia: “I Believe in Teamwork”

Dr. Yousef Zakharia: “I Believe in Teamwork”

For this Community Spotlight feature, we spoke to Dr. Yousef Zakharia, a medical oncologist at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate professor at the University of Iowa. Dr. Zakharia shares important information about finding the best care at NCI-designated centers, as well as his...

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Chuck Stravin: “With Time Comes Hope”

Chuck Stravin: “With Time Comes Hope”

Chuck Stravin is married to his high school sweetheart, Liz, and lives in Quincy, Massachusetts, just south of Boston. Diagnosed with advanced renal cancer in 2015, Chuck is beating the odds and has become a passionate advocate for kidney cancer research funding.   For this month's Community...