Kidney cancer patients have 'prospect of longer life' after research breakthrough

Kidney cancer patients have 'prospect of longer life' after research breakthrough

Dr Thomas Walther, a professor in UCC says "the prospect of a longer life could be now possible" for those living with kidney cancer. File picture: iStock

New research at UCC and Harvard University has found a treatment that could potentially extend the lives of kidney cancer patients.

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the sixth most frequently diagnosed cancer in men and the 10th in women, accounting for over 175,000 deaths annually worldwide.

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