BAY CITY, MI – Brian Martindale’s journey began when he, as a stranger, donated a kidney to a little girl who needed a transplant – a girl he is now incredibly close with. It has taken him from Bay ...

Considering nutrition and frailty earlier on may help patients achieve better health-related quality of life during kidney cancer and bladder cancer. Factors such as frailty, nutritional status and ...

Therapeutic options to treat intermediate-risk and BCG-unresponsive bladder cancer, such as medications and ablative therapies, are expanding, and novel PET tracers enable improved diagnosis and ...

The procedure could be life-changing for some people with debilitating conditions. Oscar Larrainzar, the recipient of the first-ever bladder transplant, waited to be discharged from the Ronald Reagan ...

Black and Hispanic patients with stage IV clear cell renal cell carcinoma received immunotherapy less often than others. Immunotherapy receipt also varied by income, education and insurance status.

In May, surgeons at USC and UCLA collaborated to perform the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. Currently, when a bladder fails or needs to be removed, doctors create a “neobladder” using a ...

“This surgery is a historic moment in medicine and stands to impact how we manage carefully selected patients with highly symptomatic ‘terminal’ bladders that are no longer functioning,” said Gill, ...