Kidney Cancer

Kidney tumors in children examined

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 3rd, 2005

Scientists examined kidney tumors occurring in children.

According to a study from France, "Types of renal tumors arising in children are different from those occurring in adults. Nephroblastoma is the most common (85%), with a clinical outcome which has dramatically improved in the last 30 years."

"Current classifications are aimed at better adaptation of treatment to each individual case, reducing iatrogenic complications without impairing total cure," explained E. Perlman and colleagues, Hopital d'Enfants Armand-Trousseau.

"Amongst entities which have been recently described or are better known, we can find juvenile carcinoma...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-05-03)

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