Patient Guides: Taking Charge of Kidney Cancer

ACKC’s set of online pamphlets provides kidney patients and their caregivers with the information they need to take a proactive role in their health care and in their lives.

Updated January 2019. See important new information in Guide 2, in the Approved Medical Treatments for Kidney Cancer section, page 22. See our online page to learn more about all medications, and the recently approved pembrolizumab.

• Guide 1: Understanding My Disease is written for the newly diagnosed patient.
• Guide 2: Managing My Cancer is about the care and treatment of kidney cancer patients with metastatic disease.
• Guide 3: Caring for My Caregiver is for the people in your life who are helping you.
• Guide 4: When Treatment Ends is designed for both patients and their loved ones.