SUTENT is used to treat advanced kidney cancer (advanced renal cell carcinoma or RCC).
SUTENT may harm an unborn baby (cause birth defects). Do not become pregnant. If you do, tell your doctor right away. Stop taking SUTENT. Do not breastfeed while taking SUTENT.
SUTENT may cause heart problems. Tell your doctor if you feel very tired, are short of breath, feel faint or dizzy, or have swollen feet and ankles.
In rare cases, SUTENT may cause a hole in the stomach or bowel wall or bleeding from the tumor. This could cause …

ABOUT SUTENT
SUTENT is a medicine that treats cancer. It comes in 12.5-mg, 25-mg, and 50-mg capsules. You take SUTENT once per day by mouth. Do not open the capsules.
SUTENT is used to treat an advanced form of kidney cancer, known as renal cell carcinoma (RCC). SUTENT may slow or stop the growth of cancer. It may also help shrink tumors.
SUTENT is available by prescription only. Your doctor has prescribed SUTENT because he or she believes it is the most appropriate treatment for you. SUTENT may not be appropriate for all …

According to reseachers at Duke, a combination of two drugs works better than either drug for patients with renal cell carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer. This study was published in the August 1st issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and was funded by the National Cancer Institute.
The two drugs used in the study together were interferon alpha and sorafenib, which is sold as Nexavar. Interferon alpha is an immunotherapy agent, but kidney tumors only respond to it about 5 to 10 percent of the time. The …

People who has been a diagnosed cancer should receive specialized nutritional advice from doctor or a trained professional. Once treatment has been completed, if you are able to do so (and unless otherwise advised), aim to follow our cancer prevention recommendations for diet, physical activity and healthy weight maintenance.
Cancer survivors are people who are living with a diagnosis of cancer, including those who have went through surgeries or other treatments and who have recovered from the disease.
Researches show that physical activity(at least 30 mins every day) and other measures that …

Because of the lack of early warning signs, 25% of patients are diagnosed while at stage 4 of the disease and when this happens the 5 years survive rate is barely 10% . However this is definitely not the time to give up, because there are many important factors can help you to extend your life and improve life quality, there are many examples of kidney cancer patients who live with tumor for a very long-term, and you can be one of them. Here are the four most important factors you …

Chemotherapy uses anti-cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells by impeding their growth and reproduction.  The drugs may be taken as tablets or capsules or by injection into a vein (intravenously). These drugs enter the bloodstream and reach all areas of the body, making this treatment potentially useful for cancer that has spread or metastasized to organs beyond the kidney.
Chemotherapy is not a standard treatment for the commonest type of kidney cancer – renal cell cancer. It is not as good at treating kidney cancer as some other treatments such as biological …

Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high-energy x-rays or other types of radiation to destroy cancerous cells or keep them from growing. There are two types of radiation therapy, External radiation therapy(Such as Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy (3-D CRT)①) and Internal radiation therapy (uses a radioactive substance sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters that are placed directly into or near the cancer). Usually, renal cell carcinoma patient receive external beam therapy, where the radiation beam is generated by an external device (linear accelerator).
The way the radiation therapy is …

A kidney biopsy is an essential tool in the diagnosis of kidney disease. Biopsies are not often used to diagnose kidney tumors. Imaging studies usually provide enough information. But, biopsy is sometimes used to get a small sample of cells from a suspicious area if imaging test results are not conclusive enough to warrant removing a kidney. Biopsy may also be done to confirm the diagnosis of cancer if a person’s health is too poor for surgery and other local treatments (such as radiofrequency ablation, arterial embolization or cryotherapy) are …