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Rhabdoid Tumors: Understanding Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Impact During Kidney Cancer Awareness Month
"On November 26th, 2023, I took Paislee to the emergency room, where she was admitted for high levels of calcium. Two days later, while changing Paislee's diaper, I felt a hard lump on the lower right side (her left side) of her abdomen and called for help."...
R01 Grants and Wilms Tumor Research: A Decade of Setbacks and Why These Critical Funding Gaps Matter
Here’s the heartbreaking reality: Wilms tumor, the most common abdominal childhood cancer & most common tumor affecting the kidneys, hasn’t received an R01 grant in over 10 years. Every child deserves the best chance at a future, and research is how we get there....
Sharing The Experience: The Genetic Predisposition Clinic
"Ralphie’s nine-year-old sister was not identified as having a cancer predisposition syndrome until after she had been diagnosed with cancer, Wilms tumor, twice. By that time cancer filled her little body, displacing her liver, traveling throughout her abdomen,...
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