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Mike Lawing attended the Kidney Cancer Symposium in Chicago in October 2013, a forum for the top kidney cancer doctors in the world to share ideas. He is preparing a report for the KCA, presenting the highlights of the meeting in patient-approachable language. Meanwhile, he shares his insights from this important meeting.
Five years ago, there were no drugs to combat kidney cancer, and kidney cancer was notoriously unresponsive to classic chemotherapy. Now there is an array of new drugs to help, and there is more hope for people with kidney cancer than ever before.
Mike and Joyce talk about the progress and challenges presented at the KCA’s Annual Kidney Cancer Symposium.
Here is the pointer to the report Mike and Joyce prepared concerning the 2012 conference, which is still quite relevant: http://www.flipdocs.com/showbook.aspx?ID=10007570_185409
Deb Maskens of Kidney Cancer Canada also attended the 2014 meeting and prepared this report for her constituency in Canada: http://kidneycancercanada.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/kidney-cancer-research-updates-october-2013/
We invite your questions to fuel a follow-on session about this conference. Please add your questions in the comments below, or send them to info@powerfulpatient.org
