Kidney Cancer Research Summit (KCRS21)
Join us as we continue to collaborate, share innovations, and discuss research progress.
KCRS21
October 7-8, 2021
We are excited to announce that KCRS21 will consist of an in-person meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our hybrid format will include a concurrent interactive program broadcast online via Zoom webinar.
Registration for the virtual event is now open with no fee for academic, research, advocacy, and patient attendees.
Registration for the live component is currently by invitation only due to space constraints; should registration for the live component open up, we will email those who’ve registered for the virtual event first.
KidneyCAN is proud to open registration for the 3rd Annual Kidney Cancer Research Summit. KCRS is a meeting focused on basic, translational, and clinical kidney cancer research. This meeting is fueled by the ideas and research funded through the Department of Defense CDMRP-KCRP awards.
The goal for KCRS is to present the important, innovative research funded by the KCRP. We also aim to connect researchers from around the world to share their work.
Join us on October 7 and 8 for this dynamic, interactive meeting focused on the latest basic science, translational, and clinical research in kidney cancer.
Recap of KCRS20
Countries from across the globe
Registrants for event
U.S. States represented
This work is fueled by the funding from the Department of Defense CDMRP – KCRP.
It’s one of the most exciting things I’ve ever participated in. We’re bringing together clinicians, physician scientists, and bench scientists to talk about kidney cancer research. The goal is to invigorate the science and spur breakthroughs.
Dr. Hans Hammers, UTSW
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REMINDER: Do you have questions about participating in clinical trials and how to find trials for you? Do you know the risks and benefits? We are hosting a special Facebook Live with a medical oncologist and clinical trial patient to answer all your questions live, including:
• What is a clinical trial?
• Where do I find clinical trials for kidney cancer?
• What are important questions to ask about a trial?
• What is informed consent?
• What are good clinical practices?
• What can patients expect during a trial?
• What are the risks and benefits of participating in a trial?
• What is the difference between participating at an academic institution versus a freestanding clinical research organization (CRO)?
Will you join us? RSVP now so you get a Facebook notification when we go live: https://fb.me/e/1JfopJa6J
🚨🚨 RESEARCH NEWS
Lenvantinib (by Eisai) + Keytruda (by Merck) is now
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for #kidneycancer. Wonderful to have this powerful new combo as a treatment option for patients with advanced #RCC!
Dr. Toni Choueiri of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute says, "This is another important combination option for advanced kidney cancer patients. The results in term of responses including complete responders are the highest to date, albeit with a bit different patient populations. The hope is to continue building on doublets, like pembro/Len with other active drugs, that are able to induce more deep and sustainable remissions."
Great news!
More information here: https://cancernetwork.com/view/pembrolizumab-lenvatinib-approved-by-the-fda-for-the-treatment-of-first-line-advanced-rcc
We lose almost 40 people per day to kidney cancer in the United States. The need for research funding is urgent.
For #DistrictDays, the #kidneycancer community is meeting with members of #Congress all over the United States to ask for robust funding of kidney cancer research.
We want Congress to
1. Maintain the $50 million currently allocated for KCRP for
Fiscal Year 2022.
2. Increase the NIH budget by $3.5 billion for Fiscal Year 2022.
3. Support the creation of ARPA-H (the Advanced Research
Projects Agency - Health) at NIH with an additional $3 billion.
4. Continue supporting legislative initiatives that contribute to
robust, sustainable funding for medical research.
5. Continue to incorporate the patient perspective on legislative policy matters.
Thank you to the many delegates from all over the country who are speaking on behalf of patients, caregivers, friends, and family members today. Thank you to doctors and researchers from the medical community who've made time today to lift their voices with ours.
Let's work together to #fundthecure.
#AcceleratingCures
Thank you to Senator Grassley's office for meeting with us today. Here, KidneyCAN President and #kidneycancer survivor Bryan Lewis, along with our friend and patient Shari, and Dr. Zakharia speak up about the need for robust research funding.
76,000+ will be diagnosed in 2021.
14,000 Americans will lose their lives to kidney cancer this year.
It's urgent! Let's #fundthecure.
#acceleratingcures #districtdays
Here we go!
#KidneyCancer advocates across the #USA are speaking with #onevoice today. We're asking #Congress to #fundthecure with robust research funding for the National Institutes of Health, the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs - Kidney Cancer Research Program, and ARPA-H, which will devote specific funding to cancer research initiatives.
We lose 40 people per day to kidney cancer. This is urgent. The time is NOW.
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.
We’d love to have you for Kidney Cancer District Advocacy Days!
You don’t need any prior experience or special skills. We provide you with training and a toolkit so that you can share your story with those who make decisions about research funding.
You’ll help them understand the impact of kidney cancer on people’s lives and the urgent need for a cure.
Join us and make your voice heard!
Register at https://kidneycan.org/2021-district-days/
We’d love to have you for #KidneyCancer District Advocacy Days! You don’t need any prior experience or special skills. We provide you with training and a toolkit so that you can share your story with those who make decisions about research funding. You’ll help them understand the impact of kidney cancer on people’s lives and the urgent need for a cure.
Join us and make your voice heard!
Register at https://kidneycan.org/2021-district-days/
KidneyCAN is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit and does not receive any funding through the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) or KCRP (Kidney Cancer Research Program). Our work is funded by grassroots donors in the kidney cancer community.
