Doctors understand that knowledge is the best weapon in the fight against cancer. Doctors and other health care providers around the globe use the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines™) to help determine the best approaches to diagnosing, treating, managing, and monitoring patients with cancer at every stage. The NCCN Treatment Summaries for People with Cancer™ translate this critical information to the one it impacts the most, you.
New Treatment Summaries, articles, and media now available on NCCN.com include:
On April 17, 2006, Jeff Kidwell bent over to pick up a 5-gallon paint bucket and felt a stabbing pain in his back. The residential contractor shook it off — pains like that seem to come with the job. That evening there was blood in his urine. Still, he wasn’t concerned. At 5 o’clock the next morning, excruciating pain propelled Kidwell to the local hospital emergency room. The doctor ordered a CT scan and delivered the hard news that Jeff had a mass on his kidney and that it was kidney cancer. Thanks to his treatment team at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Jeff is now back on the golf course. Read more >>>
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Answer provided by:Donald Lawrence, MD