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• Korean Red Ginseng Extract Enhances the Anticancer Effects of Sorafenib through Abrogation of CREB and c-Jun Activation in Renal Cell Carcinoma - Phytother Res. 2017 May 22 - "Our results clearly demonstrate that KRGE can enhance the anticancer activity of sorafenib and may have a substantial potential in the treatment of RCC" - See ginseng at Amazon.com.
• Common supplement boosts kidney cancer therapy - Science Daily, 5/2/16 - "docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a fatty acid commonly found in fish and fish oil supplements, reduces renal cell carcinoma invasiveness, growth rate, and blood vessel growth when combined with the anti-cancer therapy regorafenib ... Though the results are encouraging, Weiss cautions that these benefits are quite narrow, relying on the synergistic interaction between regorafenib and DHA. In other words, there's no proof that taking fish oil supplements or eating fish like salmon would have any impact against kidney cancer on their own" - See docosahexaenoic acid at Amazon.com.
• Association of Vitamin E Intake with Reduced Risk of Kidney Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies - Med Sci Monit. 2015 Nov 8 - "The pooled RR (95%CI) of kidney cancer for the highest vs. the lowest level of vitamin E intake was 0.81 ... Results of the present study suggest an inverse relationship between vitamin E intake and kidney cancer risk" - See Jarrow FamilE (contains all eight members of the vitamin E family, includes Tocomin) at Amazon.com.
• Lycopene may ward off kidney cancer in older women - Science Daily, 3/2/15 - "after analyzing data from 96,196 women nationwide and in Detroit who enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative from 1993 to 1998 and were followed through July 2013 ... Compared with women who reported a lower intake of lycopene, those who ingested more had a 39 percent lower risk. No other micronutrient was significantly associated with the same risk" - See Jarrow Lyco-Sorb (contains Lyco-O-Mato) at Amazon.com.
• 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 and Renal Cell Carcinoma - Medscape, 11/6/14 - "A doubling of 25(OH)D3 was associated with 28% lower odds of RCC" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Predicted Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Risk of Renal Cell Cancer - J Natl Cancer Inst. 2013 Apr 8 - "prospectively evaluated the association between predicted plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and RCC risk among 72 051 women and 46 380 men in the period from 1986 to 2008 ... The multivariable hazard ratios between extreme quintiles of predicted 25(OH)D score were 0.50 (95% CI = 0.32 to 0.80) in women, 0.59 (95% CI = 0.37 to 0.94) in men, and 0.54 (95% CI = 0.39 to 0.75; P trend < .001) in the pooled cohorts. An increment of 10ng/mL in predicted 25(OH)D score was associated with a 44% lower incidence of RCC (pooled HR = 0.56, 95% CI = 0.42 to 0.74) ... Higher predicted plasma 25(OH)D levels were associated with a statistically significantly lower risk of RCC in men and women" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Intake of fiber and fiber-rich plant foods is associated with a lower risk of renal cell carcinoma in a large US cohort - Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Mar 20 - "NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study (n = 491,841) ... Total dietary fiber intake was associated with a significant 15-20% lower risk of RCC in the 2 highest quintiles compared with the lowest (P-trend = 0.005). Intakes of legumes, whole grains, and cruciferous vegetables were also associated with a 16-18% reduced risk of RCC. Conversely, refined grain intake was positively associated with RCC risk in a comparison of quintile 5 with quintile 1 (HR: 1.19; 95% CI: 1.02, 1.39; P-trend = 0.04)" - See Garden of Life, RAW Fiber at Amazon.com.
• Eating red meat may hike kidney cancer risk - MSNBC, 4/20/09 - "The researchers found no relationship between fruit and dairy food consumption and renal cell carcinoma. However, both men and women who ate red meat five or more times a week were more than four times as likely to develop the disease compared to people who consumed red meat less than once a week"
• Deficiency In Exposure To Sunlight Linked To Endometrial Cancer - Science Daily, 11/14/07 - "In general, endometrial cancer incidence was highest at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres ... This is the third environmental paper from this research team to show a strong association between vitamin D and cancer using global incidence data (GLOBOCAN). The first paper, which illuminated a similar pattern for kidney cancer, was published Sept. 15, 2006, in the International Journal of Cancer. The second, on ovarian cancer, was published Oct. 31, 2006, in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine" - See vitamin D at Amazon.com.
• Chinese Medicine Compound Has Satisfactory Anti-cancer Effects On Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Science Daily, 10/15/07
• Flavonoids and the risk of renal cell carcinoma - Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 Jan;16(1):98-101 - "After adjustment for major recognized confounding factors and total energy intake, the odds ratios for subjects in the highest versus the lowest quintile of intake were 0.80 [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 0.58-1.11] for total flavonoids, 0.76 (95% CI, 0.56-1.03) for isoflavones, 0.94 (95% CI, 0.60-1.47) for anthocyanidins, 0.77 (95% CI, 0.56-1.06) for flavan-3-ols, 0.90 (95% CI, 0.67-1.21) for flavanones, 0.68 (95% CI, 0.50-0.93) for flavones, and 0.69 (95% CI, 0.50-0.95) for flavonols"
• Intakes of coffee, tea, milk, soda and juice and renal cell cancer in a pooled analysis of 13 prospective studies - Int J Cancer. 2007 Jun 21 - "Coffee consumption was associated with a modestly lower risk of renal cell cancer (pooled multivariate RR for 3 or more 8 oz (237 ml) cups/day versus less than one 8 oz (237 ml) cup/day = 0.84 ... Tea consumption was also inversely associated with renal cell cancer risk (pooled multivariate RR for 1 or more 8 oz (237 ml) cups/day versus nondrinkers = 0.85"
• Fibre intake and renal cell carcinoma: A case-control study from Italy - Int J Cancer. 2007 Jun 20 - "The continuous OR for an increase in intake equal to the difference between the 80th and the 20th percentile were 0.94 (95% CI: 0.82-1.08) for total dietary fibre, 0.98 (95% CI: 0.85-1.13) for soluble noncellulose polysaccharides, 0.92 (95% CI: 0.80-1.05) for total insoluble fibre, 0.90 (95% CI: 0.78-1.04) for cellulose, 0.95 (95% CI: 0.84-1.06) for insoluble noncellulose polysaccharides and 1.06 (95% CI: 0.93-1.21) for lignin"
• Alcohol May Help Prevent Kidney Cancer - WebMD, 5/15/07 - "people who reported moderate alcohol consumption were 28% less likely to be diagnosed with kidney cancer ... Moderate drinkers consumed at least 15 grams of alcohol per day. That's a little more than one daily drink"
• High Bread Consumption Linked To Higher Risk Of Most Common Kidney Cancer - Science Daily, 10/20/06 - "A significant direct association was observed for bread consumption (OR=1.94) for the highest compared to the lowest quintile of intake ... By contrast, decreasing risk was associated with increasing intake of poultry, processed meat, and all vegetables, both raw and cooked ... The association between elevated cereal intake (bread, pasta and rice) "may be due to the high glycemic index of these foods"
• Study Links Bread, Kidney Cancer Risk - WebMD, 10/20/06
• New Study Finds Omega-3's in Fatty Fish Can Reduce Risk of Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 9/26/06 - "At least one portion of fatty fish a week during the period (1987-2004) reduced the risk of renal cancer by 74 per cent compared with those who never ate fatty fish"
• Fatty Fish Fight Cancer - WebMD, 9/19/06 - "Those who consistently ate lots of fatty fish over a 10-year period had a 74% lower risk of kidney cancer" - See Mega Twin EPA at Amazon.com.
• Long-term Fatty Fish Consumption and Renal Cell Carcinoma Incidence in Women - JAMA. 2006 Sep 20;296(11):1371-6 - "Compared with no consumption, the multivariate rate ratio (RR) was 0.56 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.35-0.91) for women eating fatty fish once a week or more. Compared with women consistently reporting no fish consumption, the multivariate RR was 0.26 (95% CI, 0.10-0.67) for those women reporting consistent consumption of fatty fish at baseline" - See Mega Twin EPA at iHerb.

Other News:

• Cholesterol Drugs Might Boost Kidney Cancer Survival - WebMD, 5/7/13 - "Over three years, 10 percent of the patients who took statins died of their cancer, compared with 17 percent of those who did not take this type of drug ... Last year in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Danish researchers studied 13 different cancers and found that in all types, the use of statins was associated with longer cancer specific survival"
• Analgesics use associated with increased risk for renal cell carcinoma - Science Daily, 10/24/11 - "conducted a Medline database search for case-control or cohort studies on acetaminophen, aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), published between 1966 and July 1, 2011...any use of acetaminophen was associated with a 33 percent increased risk for RCC, and use of other NSAIDs was linked with a 26 percent increased risk. No significantly increased risk for RCC was found with the use of aspirin"
• Ablation proved as effective as traditional surgery in treating kidney cancer - Science Daily, 6/2/10
• Drug created to keep tumor growth switched off - Science Daily, 2/11/10
• Two-drug Combination Appears Safe And Active In Metastatic Kidney Cancer - Science Daily, 5/31/09
• Robotic Assisted Kidney Cancer Surgery Proves To Be Beneficial To Patients - Science Daily, 4/26/09
• Percutaneous Cryoablation Destroys Small Kidney Tumours - Doctor's Guide, 3/10/09
• Hope For Treating Kidney Cancer - Science Daily, 12/23/08
• Aggressive, Personalized Treatment Increases Kidney Cancer Patient Survival, Study Shows - Science Daily, 11/1/08
• New Hope for Treating Pancreas, Kidney Cancers - oncologystat.com, 6/3/08
• Kidney Cancer Survival on the Rise - WebMD, 5/16/08
• Avastin May Stop Rectal Cancer Spread - WebMD, 4/15/08
• High Success Reported With Cryoablation - Medscape, 3/25/08
• New Hope For Children With Kidney Tumors Deemed Inoperable - Science Daily, 3/24/08
• High Blood Pressure Linked to Kidney Cancer Risk - Medscape, 3/4/08 - "Hypertension is an important risk factor of RCC, accounting for approximately 20%-30% of cases"
• Statins May Reduce Risk of Kidney Cancer - Medscape, 2/26/08 - "Treatment with a statin was associated with a 48% reduced risk of renal cell carcinoma"
• High Cardiac Risk With Sutent - oncologystat.com, 2/13/08
• Partial Kidney Removal OK for Tumors? - Science Daily, 2/13/08
• Statins might reduce risk of renal cell carcinoma in humans: case-control study of 500,000 veterans - Urology. 2008 Jan;71(1):118-22 - "Statin use was significantly associated with a risk reduction of renal cell carcinoma of 48% (adjusted odds ratio 0.52"
• How Less Can Be More When Treating Some Kidney Cancers - Science Daily, 1/9/08
• Better Outlook for Kidney Cancer - WebMD, 12/20/07
• Patients Respond Well To New Minimally Invasive Treatment For Kidney Tumors - Science Daily, 11/29/07
• Cryoablation Continues To Show Good Results For Kidney Cancer Patients - Science Daily, 11/25/07
• New Drug, Axitinib, Shows Promise for Treating Kidney Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/31/07
• Experimental Drug Shows Promise In Advanced Kidney Cancer - Science Daily, 9/26/07
• Radiofrequency Ablation Highly Effective in Treating Kidney Tumors - Doctor's Guide, 8/1/07
• Two Drugs Work Better Together Than Either Alone Against Kidney Cancer - Science Daily, 7/30/07
• FDA Approves New Drug For Advanced Kidney Cancer - Science Daily, 5/31/07
• Doctors Conclude Temsirolimus Is Effective New Treatment For Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma - Science Daily, 5/30/07
• Oncophage Improves Overall Survival in Intermediate-risk Kidney-cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 5/25/07
• Second-line Therapy With Sorafenib Improves Survival in Patients With Advanced Renal-Cell Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/24/07
• Cryoablation -- A New Treatment Option for Some Kidney Tumor Patients - Doctor's Guide, 3/29/07
• Freezing Kidney Tumours Results in Less Recurrence, Shorter Hospital Stay - Doctor's Guide, 3/5/07
• Sunitinib (Sutent) Improves Quality of Life Over Interferon-Alfa in Kidney Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 2/8/07
• Targeted Drugs Slow Kidney Cancer - WebMD, 1/10/07
• Cryoablation of Renal Tumors Appears Safe, Controls Growth - Doctor's Guide, 12/4/06 - "Cryoablation or renal tumors -- some as large as 7 cm in diameter -- can be accomplished safely and with excellent control of local recurrence up to 27 months"
• Drug combo effective for kidney cancer - MSNBC, 11/9/06
• Agennix Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Talactoferrin Alfa in Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 10/12/06
• Sorafenib May Help Prevent Brain Metastasis in Renal Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/2/06
• Sorafenib (Nexavar) Improves Survival in Elderly Renal Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 9/30/06
• Radical Surgery for Kidney Cancer is Risk Factor for Chronic Kidney Disease - Doctor's Guide, 9/6/06
• Cryoablation Studies Demonstrate Effectiveness of Treatment for Kidney Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/26/06
• Sunitinib Treatment Significantly Prolongs Progression Free Survival in Renal Cell Cancer Compared With Interferon-alfa - Doctor's Guide, 6/4/06
• Therapies targeted for kidney cancer - USA Today, 5/31/06
• Statin Use Associated With Marked Decrease in Kidney Cancer Among US Veterans - Doctor's Guide, 5/25/06 - "statins are associated with a 44% risk reduction of kidney cancer"
• Freezing Kidney Tumors Is A Safe Alternative To Surgery - Science Daily, 5/1/06
• Is Radiofrequency Ablation of Small Kidney Tumors Effective in the Long Term? - Doctor's Guide, 4/5/06
• Kidney Cancer Patients May Be Overtreated - Doctor's Guide, 2/9/06
• Kidney Cancer Patients May Be Overtreated, Study Finds - Science Daily, 2/9/06
• Sunitinib (Sutent) Effective in Renal, Gastrointestinal, and Neuroendocrine Cancers - Doctor's Guide, 2/1/06
• Mayo Clinic Finds Kidney Cancer Patients Unlikely to Respond to Potential Treatment Drug - Doctor's Guide, 12/22/05
• FDA approves new kidney cancer treatment - MSNBC, 12/20/05
• FDA Approves Nexavar (Sorafenib) for Treatment of Patients with Advanced Kidney Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/20/05
• Radiofrequency Ablation Effective Long-Term Treatment for Kidney Tumors - Doctor's Guide, 6/21/05
• Oncophage (HSPPC-96) Cancer Vaccine Receives European Orphan Drug Designation for Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 6/7/05
• New drugs may help kidney cancer patients live longer - USATODAY.com, 5/13/05
• Vaccination Strategy with Hybrid Cells Shows Promise in Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 4/25/05
• Mayo Clinic Discovers Potential Marker For Aggressive Kidney Cancer - Science Daily, 12/9/04
• FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation for CR002, Treatment for IgA Nephropathy - Doctor's Guide, 11/11/04
• FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to BAY 43-9006 for the Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 10/27/04
• Long-Term, Low-Dose, Intermittent Interferon After Curative Radiofrequency Ablation May Prevent Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 9/29/04
• Kidney Tumors Destroyed Through Minimally Invasive Cryoablation - Doctor's Guide, 5/13/04
• Lanthanum Carbonate May Be Superior to Calcium Carbonate for Dietary Phosphate Binding in Dialysis Patients - Doctor's Guide, 5/4/04
• FDA Approves New Indication For Hectorol (Doxercalciferol), Pro-Horomone Vitamin D2 Analog for Use in Pre-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease - Doctor's Guide, 4/26/04
• Kidney Cancer Vaccine May Prevent Recurrences - Doctor's Guide, 2/19/04
• Guideline for Cutoff Size For Stage I Renal Cell Carcinoma Should Be Lowered - Doctor's Guide, 12/4/03
• Renal Cancer Patients Show Response to Experimental BAY 43-9006 - Doctor's Guide, 11/21/03
• Clinical Response, Hypotension, And Oliguria Independent Prognostic Factors In Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Treated With Interleukin-2 - Doctor's Guide, 11/20/03
• Interferon Alfa Plus Interleukin-2 No Better Than Interleukin-2 Alone for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 11/13/03
• Partial Nephrectomy Helps Spare Dialysis in Kidney Transplant Patient With Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 10/23/03
• Nephron-Sparing Surgery Confers Excellent Long-Term Results for Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 10/16/03
• Urinary Albumin Excretion Rate is Independent Prognostic Factor in Renal Cell Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/2/03
• Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy with Clamping of Renal Vessels Should be Considered for Some Small Renal Tumours - Doctor's Guide, 9/28/03
• Kidney Cancer Vaccine? - Physician's Weekly, 8/25/03
• Collecting System Invasion in Renal-Cell Carcinoma Associated with Poor Prognosis - Doctor's Guide, 8/25/03
• Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectemy Safe, Effective for Small Renal Carcinomas - Doctor's Guide, 6/11/03
• Statin Drugs Linked to Lower Prostate and Renal Cancer Risk - Doctor's Guide, 6/4/03
• Cholesterol Drugs May Prevent Cancer - WebMD, 6/2/03 - "Overall, taking statins reduces risk of developing cancer by 20%, but that protection increases to 36% for people who take statins for four years or more ... But the benefit stops about six months after the patient stops taking the drug ... Statins offer the most protection against prostate and kidney cancer" - Note:  Red yeast rice is a non-prescription statin.  See iHerb red yeast products.
• Extreme Heat Effective In Treating Some Kidney Cancers - Doctor's Guide, 5/8/03
• FDA Grants Orphan Drug Status To GTI-2040 For Treatment Of Kidney Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 3/24/03
• Hypertensive Patients With Renal Impairment Have Fewer Side Effects From Efonidipine - Doctor's Guide, 2/6/03
• Radiofrequency Ablation Successfully Destroys Some Kidney Tumors - Doctor's Guide, 1/28/03
• Changes In Trace Element Concentrations Linked To Renal Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/02
• Immunotherapy with IFN-a and IL-2 Improves Outcomes in Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 8/12/02
• Improved Quality of Life for Kidney Cancer Patients Receiving Antigenics' Oncophage (HSPPC-96) Cancer Vaccine - Doctor's Guide, 6/4/02
• Antigenics' Oncophage (HSPPC-96) Receives Orphan Drug Status in Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 5/29/02
• Experimental Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitor Shows Responses in Renal Cell Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/22/02
• European Union Grants Orphan Drug Status to WX-G250 for Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 4/8/02
• Radiofrequency Energy Kills Kidney Cancers, Prevents Early Recurrence - Doctor's Guide, 11/28/01
• Minimally-Invasive Surgery Effective In Renal Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 11/2/01
• FDA Approves Zometa (Zoledronic Acid) For Hypercalcemia of Malignancy - Doctor's Guide, 8/21/01
• Thalomid (Thalidomide) Slows Progression of Renal Cell Carcinoma and Glioblastoma - Doctor's Guide, 5/16/01
• Less Radical Surgery For Kidney Cancer As Effective As Removing Entire Kidney - Doctor's Guide, 12/14/00
• Experimental Paclitaxel Analog Produces Complete Remissions In Advanced Cancer Patients - Doctor's Guide, 11/13/00
• Success Using Drugs Derived From Sea Animals - Doctor's Guide, 11/10/01
• Growth Rate Of Small Renal Tumours Variable - Doctor's Guide, 10/27/00
• Alternating Kidney Cancer Regimen Proves Ineffective - Doctor's Guide, 9/25/00
• News - Renal-Cell Cancer Curbed By Stem-Cell Transplants - Doctor's Guide, 9/14/00
• Thalidomide Promising in a Variety of Cancers - Doctor's Guide, 5/24/00
• Thalidomide Shows Activity In Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 5/23/00
• No signs of kidney cancer after interventional MRI renal cryosurgery for kidney cancer - Doctor's Guide, 5/3/00
• Leuvectin Results Show Promise For Kidney Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 10/5/99
• Extending Lives Of Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer - Doctor's Guide, 7/20/99
• HER-2 Product Shows Anti-Cancer Effects In Phase II Prostate And Kidney Studies - Doctor's Guide, 5/19/98
• Leuvectin May Help In Treating Advanced Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma - Doctor's Guide, 11/24/97
• Hopkins Kidney Cancer Vaccine Successful in Causing Immune Response - Doctor's Guide, 4/15/97