by ACKC | Dec 13, 2022 | ACKC News
In August of 2022, Action to Cure Kidney Cancer awarded a $50,000 grant to support the work of the National Cancer Institute’s Urologic Oncology Branch, specifically target toward kidney cancer. In the words of W. Marston Linehan, the Chief of the Branch: This...
by ACKC | Nov 10, 2022 | Kidney Cancer News
A study done by researchers working for the American Cancer Society (ACS), found that 30% of the cancer deaths in the U.S., or over 122,000 smokers in 2019, were caused by cigarette smoking. Further, smoking led to over two million total person-years of lost life as...
by ACKC | Aug 2, 2022 | Kidney Cancer News
A group of researchers and doctors belonging to the OnCovid Study Group published a retrospective study of survival rate and other factors, in Europe, of vaccinated versus unvaccinated cancer patients. The article was published in the June 2, 2022 issue of Lancet...
by ACKC | Jan 6, 2022 | ACKC News
We are pleased to announce that Action to Cure Kidney Cancer has achieved Gold status with GuideStar, the organization maintaining the most complete information on 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. Each year, millions of people look to GuideStar to make decisions...
by ACKC | Jan 2, 2022 | Kidney Cancer News
Reposted from October 2019 — William Kaelin, Dana Farber Institute, Boston, and two other scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine today for their work on the body’s awareness and response to the level of oxygen available to its cells, especially low...
