Author: KCCure
KCCure Awards $200,000 in new Kidney Cancer Research Funding
WASHINGTON – The Kidney Cancer Research Alliance (KCCure) announced awards totalling $200,000 in new funding to researchers at four institutions working on ground-breaking research in kidney cancer. The recipients are: Rosa Nadal Rios, MD, Ph.D., Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch at the National Institutes of Health for her research in the Role of epigenetic reprogramming on Human En...
Remembering those we lost to Kidney Cancer in 2019
More than 150,000 people worldwide died from kidney cancer this year. This is just a fraction of the toll that this disease has taken. Please take a moment to honor and remember those that we have lost.
Celebrating Kidney Cancer Caregivers
Laura Loughlin shares the story about how her cousin Diane stepped in to serve as her caregiver during a particularly difficult time of her cancer diagnosis. This week, we’re celebrating the many different caregivers that help improve the lives of cancer patients. I was diagnosed with Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma in 2016. Following surgery, my cancer was found to have spread to my thyro...
Celebrating Kidney Cancer Caregivers – Zach Juno
Zach Juno shares his journey as a caregiver and fierce advocate for his mother, a stage 4 kidney cancer survivor. I’ll never forget hearing it. “Your mother has a tumor the size of a tennis ball on her left kidney” That was the day I became my Mother’s advocate and cancer caregiver. This was in March of 2006 and the landscape of kidney cancer was so different. We kept reading things like “Renal C...
Kidney Cancer Caregivers
November is National Family Caregivers month – a time to honor kidney cancer caregivers. At KCCure, we routinely are asked how we can do more for caregivers. It’s a great question and part of our core mission. First and foremost, we’re working to highlight the diversity of roles in the caregiver experience. If we’re going to help people – it’s crucial that we kn...
Voice of Kidney Cancer – Mary Kammerer-Miskovsky
Our life changed forever when my husband Rick was diagnosed with Stage IV aggressive clear cell renal carcinoma on New Years Eve of 2018. In the beginning, all I knew was fear until I joined KCCure. The amazing support we have received is beyond anything I could ever have imagined. Because of KCCure we went for a second opinion and found an AMAZING RCC oncologist, Dr. Chuck Drake, at New York Pres...
Voice of Kidney Cancer – Naomi Henley Grossman
So it’s July and it’s one year since my life changed. This was the day my doctor told me my hemoglobin had crashed to 5.2 and I had to go to the hospital for a blood transfusion. Even then, I had no clue that my life would never be the same again. It took another six weeks till they found the 15 cm cancerous tumor on my left kidney. After my kidney was removed I had 3 months of blessed remission b...
Voice of Kidney Cancer – Chester’s Story
I was diagnosed with kidney cancer mid-April 2019. I was scared and had no answers. Having little experience with cancer, I basically thought I was dead and leaving my wife and 3-year-old all alone in the world. The first surgeon I met with told me they would need to do an open incision about 12-18 inches across my body. He told me it was the only option. They weren’t talking to me abou...
Voice of Kidney Cancer – Christiane Waked
Change your perspective and make cancer a thriving experience to become your best self. In October 2006, I was sitting on a bench in Paris, crying my eyes out while it was pouring rain on me, as if the sky was feeling my pain and sobbing with me. Earlier that day, a man in a white blouse articulated a two-syllable word that every sensible person fears: “Cancer”, he said, “Death”, I thought. ...
What is No Tie July?
When it comes to kidney cancer, a tie isn’t good enough. We need a win. Join our month-long fundraising effort, No Tie July, and help us raise one year of life-saving research funding in just one month.