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. 

Let's Rock the Run for Kidney Cancer Research

Lace up your running shoes and join us as we come together to make a difference in the fight against kidney cancer.

Kidney Cancer Research Summit

Registration is open now for the 2023 Kidney Cancer Research Summit in Boston on July 13-14. Don’t miss out – virtual attendance is free!

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.

Spring 2023 Advocacy Days

You missed our first event of 2023. Learn more about how you can help us as we continue to advocate for increased funding. No experience necessary!
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.

💚June 15th is #WorldKidneyCancerDay. This year, we're talking about how to live well when you have kidney cancer.

A #kidneycancer diagnosis can impact your emotional health, which in turn can affect your relationships. This is a life-changing experience, and you may need to adjust ...household and extended family roles. At our Patient Resource Center, we’ve gathered resources to guide you as you share your diagnosis, communicate with others, and seek support.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/LivingWellRCC

💚June 15th is #WorldKidneyCancerDay.

#KidneyCancer impacts your emotional health, which in turn can affect your relationships. We’ve gathered resources to help you share your diagnosis, communicate with others, and seek support.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/LivingWellRCC

💚June 15th is #WorldKidneyCancerDay. This year, we're talking about how to live well when you have kidney cancer.

A #kidneycancer diagnosis can impact your emotional health, which in turn can affect your relationships. This is a life-changing experience, and you may need to adjust ...household and extended family roles. At our Patient Resource Center, we’ve gathered resources to guide you as you share your diagnosis, communicate with others, and seek support.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/LivingWellRCC

1/Thrilled to share our work on “Circulating & intratumoral determinants of response to atezo+bev in pts with variant histology or sarco RCC” from #BraunLab @BraunMDPhD & @DrRanaMcKay out in @CIR_AACR
W/ @TalalZarif1 @ZiadBakouny @ShahValisha @DrChoueiri & many others

🚨 #KCRP FY23 Funding Opportunities Released!

There are $50 MILLION REASON$ for you to apply for @CDMRP research funding. Let's #acceleratecures for #kidneycancer!

Info & due dates: https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/kcrp

@OncoAlert

Academy of Kidney Cancer Investigator members @BraunMDPhD and @AChakrabortyPhD have collaborated on this excellent review of metabolic pathways in RCC. Go to for more info on the Academy and membership.

https://t.co/h3buFEyuAu

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Immunobiology and Metabolic Pathways of Renal Cell Carcinoma

🌍 #WorldKidneyCancerDay is coming up!

IKCC is hosting a Global Patient and Caregiver Symposium on June 15th to discuss living well with #kidneycancer. We're excited to join and learn together.

Don't miss out! Register here: ...https://www.worldkidneycancerday.org/register/

Being diagnosed with and treated for kidney cancer will change many facets of your life. KidneyCAN provides information and support to help you manage your stress and improve your health and well-being at our Patient Resource Center: https://bit.ly/LivingWellRCC

#AcceleratingCures #LivingWellwithCancer

🌍Join us & @IKCCorg on June 15 for #WorldKidneyCancerDay! Learn how you can live fully while coping with #kidneycancer at the Global Patient & Caregiver Symposium.

Register: https://worldkidneycancerday.org/register/

More resources at KidneyCAN's Patient Resource ...Center: https://bit.ly/LivingWellRCC

🌍 #WorldKidneyCancerDay is coming up!

IKCC is hosting a Global Patient and Caregiver Symposium on June 15th to discuss living well with #kidneycancer. We're excited to join and learn together.

Don't miss out! Register here: ...https://www.worldkidneycancerday.org/register/

Being diagnosed with and treated for kidney cancer will change many facets of your life. KidneyCAN provides information and support to help you manage your stress and improve your health and well-being at our Patient Resource Center: https://bit.ly/LivingWellRCC

#AcceleratingCures #LivingWellwithCancer

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!

Latest News

From the Heart to the Hill: Advocating for Kidney Cancer Research Funding

Spring Advocacy : By the Numbers KidneyCAN is thrilled to announce the success of our Spring Advocacy Days event, which took place on March 13th in person in Washington, D.C., and on March 14th virtually. We are grateful for the 186 confirmed meetings with...

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. ...

Lenny and Phyllis: “We Need to Keep Up the Fight”

Phyllis was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2012. Tumors were found on both kidneys and treated with surgery. Her cancer progessed to stage IV in 2014, but Phyllis says, "Here I am, ten years later! Life has changed, but it is good!" For this month's Community...

Rock the Run for Kidney Cancer Research Funding

KidneyCAN had the first ever Rock the Run 5k fundraiser in October 2022. This is part of the group of KCRS22 attendees who walked and ran with us at dawn before the second conference day began. KidneyCAN is proud to share the results of the first annual Rock the Run...

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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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...

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From the Heart to the Hill: Advocating for Kidney Cancer Research Funding

From the Heart to the Hill: Advocating for Kidney Cancer Research Funding

Spring Advocacy : By the Numbers KidneyCAN is thrilled to announce the success of our Spring Advocacy Days event, which took place on March 13th in person in Washington, D.C., and on March 14th virtually. We are grateful for the 186 confirmed meetings with representatives from 42 states, including...

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Latest News

From the Heart to the Hill: Advocating for Kidney Cancer Research Funding

From the Heart to the Hill: Advocating for Kidney Cancer Research Funding

Spring Advocacy : By the Numbers KidneyCAN is thrilled to announce the success of our Spring Advocacy Days event, which took place on March 13th in person in Washington, D.C., and on March 14th virtually. We are grateful for the 186 confirmed meetings with representatives from 42 states, including...

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Latest News

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...