Article
Genetic basis of cancer of the kidney.
Seminars in oncology - 1 Oct 2006
Sudarshan Sunil, Linehan W Marston
Abstract excerpt
Kidney cancer is not a single disease. It is made up of a number of different types of cancer that occur in the kidney, each with a different histologic type, having a different clinical course, responding differently to therapy and caused by a different gene. The identification of families with a predisposition to the development of renal neoplasms, including von Hippel-Lindau (VHL), hereditary papillary renal...
Topics
- Carcinoma, Papillary
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Syndrome
- von Hippel-Lindau Disease
