Our Goals
- We provide education, resources, and support to kidney cancer patients and caregivers
- We identify patients’ and researchers’ unmet needs
- We engage and educate policymakers on the urgency of kidney cancer research funding
- We urge Congress to fund kidney cancer research
- We increase CDMRP Kidney Cancer Research Program and NIH funding through advocacy
- We provide direct funding to promising ideas
- We propel collaboration and progress in kidney cancer research (Kidney Cancer Research Summit)
- We grow the community of kidney cancer researchers
- We support the development of new treatments by educating patients on trial access and enrollment
- We 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.
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New Uromigos podcast ‘on location’ in Spain. https://anchor.fm/the-uromigos/episodes/Episode-120-The-Uromigos-Paper-of-the-Month-from-Mallorca-e1562qo
Recently diagnosed with COVID-19? Bristol Myers Squibb's COVID treatment trial -- mAb Duo -- is now up and live on the NIH Rise Above COVID site for patients. This Phase 2 trial is for ...COVID-positive patients experiencing symptoms who are standard risk to progressing (not only high risk patients). The Phase 2 trial enrollment is now live in the US at 53 sites.
You may already know that we at KidneyCAN are big proponents for clinical trials. Here's why:
Why should I join a clinical trial?
Clinical trials are part of clinical research and at the heart of all medical advances. Clinical trials look at new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease.
Treatments might be new drugs or new combinations of drugs, new surgical procedures or devices, or new ways to use existing treatments.
The goal of clinical trials is to determine if a new test or treatment works and is safe. Clinical trials can also look at other aspects of care, such as improving the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses.
People participate in clinical trials for a variety of reasons. Healthy volunteers say they participate to help others and to contribute to moving science forward. Participants with an illness or disease also participate to help others, but also to possibly receive the newest treatment and to have the additional care and attention from the clinical trial staff.
Clinical trials offer hope for many people and an opportunity to help researchers find better treatments for others in the future.
Recently diagnosed with COVID-19? Bristol Myers Squibb's COVID treatment trial -- mAb Duo -- is now up and live on the NIH Rise Above COVID site for patients. This Phase 2 trial is for ...COVID-positive patients experiencing symptoms who are standard risk to progressing (not only high risk patients). The Phase 2 trial enrollment is now live in the US at 53 sites.
You may already know that we at KidneyCAN are big proponents for clinical trials. Here's why:
Why should I join a clinical trial?
Clinical trials are part of clinical research and at the heart of all medical advances. Clinical trials look at new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease.
Treatments might be new drugs or new combinations of drugs, new surgical procedures or devices, or new ways to use existing treatments.
The goal of clinical trials is to determine if a new test or treatment works and is safe. Clinical trials can also look at other aspects of care, such as improving the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses.
People participate in clinical trials for a variety of reasons. Healthy volunteers say they participate to help others and to contribute to moving science forward. Participants with an illness or disease also participate to help others, but also to possibly receive the newest treatment and to have the additional care and attention from the clinical trial staff.
Clinical trials offer hope for many people and an opportunity to help researchers find better treatments for others in the future.
💡Many cancers develop despite excellent "life long health decisions". I spent all day telling my patients that #cancer is NOT their fault.
Can we reduce cancer risk? Yes.
...Can we PREVENT cancer? No.
Exciting news! @BMS #COVID mAb Duo is now live on the @NIH Rise Above COVID site for patients!
https://www.riseabovecovid.org/us/en/
This Phase 2 trial is for COVID-positive ...patients experiencing symptoms who are standard risk to progressing (not only high risk). Enroll now in US @ 53 sites
Please get vaccinated. “We can do this!” Thank you @McDonalds for extending this message on your coffee cups. Delta is different. Please make the choice to protect yourself and your loved ones. ...@CDCgov @COVID19nCCC
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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.
