Researchers at San Francisco's Fox Chase Cancer Center have demonstrated the ability to identify kidney cancer in the urine of affected patients. More encouraging is that urine tests were repeated following the removal of the cancerous kidney and none of the tests showed DNA evidence of disease. "We used a common laboratory procedure to test the urine of 50 patients with kidney cancer," explained Fox Chase molecular biologist Paul Cairns, Ph.D. "Forty-four of the 50 tests showed gene changes in the urine that were identical to the gene changes found in the tumor tissue taken at the time of surgery." "The test appears to be remarkably accurate with no false-positives in this study," said Robert G. Uzzo, M.D., a urologic surgeon at Fox Chase and lead author of the abstract. "In addition, one of the most impressive outcomes of this research is that the test also identified 27 of the 30 patients with stage I disease." The research findings were presented at the American Urological Association Annual Meeting May 8-13 in San Francisco. Source: United Press International Thanks to arcmax.com Remember we are NOT Doctors and have NO medical training. This site is like an Encylopedia - there are many pages, many links on many topics. Support our work with any size DONATION - see left side of any page - for how to donate. You can help raise awareness of CAM.