Please feel free to forward to fellow researchers and share news of our journal | Dear Colleague, We are delighted to announce the publication of the new issue of Kidney Cancer (KC). The journal provides an open forum for original research in basic science, translational research and clinical medicine that will expedite our fundamental understanding and improve treatment of tumors of the kidney. The scope also includes ethics, patient advocacy and survivorship issues. The contents are freely available online, and the latest issue can be browsed below. Special features of the journal include our Clinical Trials Corner – which provides a synopsis of new and interesting developments in that arena – and our social media coverage of kidney cancer related news and events. | Call for Papers As a member of our community, we would like to invite you to submit your own research articles to the journal, which offers contributing authors many benefits: • First class Editorial Board
• Rigorous peer review and speedy manuscript processing
• Rapid online publication (pre-press) on acceptance
• The first two volumes freely available to all readers
• Articles accepted this year will be published Open Access with no article processing fee | Submit your manuscript electronically
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Aims and Scope Kidney Cancer as an international, multidisciplinary journal that provides an invaluable and indispensable platform for the many collaborative, transdisciplinary, and translational efforts to help treat and finally cure this malignancy. Best wishes, Primo N. Lara Jr, MD
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sacramento, CA, USA
Email: kca@iospress.com Peter Mulders, MD
Radboud UMC
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Email: kca@iospress.com Editors-in-Chief
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Join the conversation at: twitter.com/KCA_Journal | All articles are open access and free for all to read, download and share. Commentaries Adjuvant Sunitinib for Renal Cell Carcinoma: Still at the Beginning of the Road
Carretero-González, A. | de Velasco, G. Radical Nephrectomy is the Treatment of Choice for Complex, Localized Renal Tumors
Meissner, M.A. | McCormick, B.Z. | Matin, S.F. | Wood, C.G. | Karam, J.A. Review Article Landmark Trials in Renal Cancer
Vaishampayan, U. Research Articles Systematic Review: ClearCode 34 – A Validated Prognostic Signature in Clear
Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ccRCC)
Ghatalia, Pooja | Rathmell, W. Kimryn Fourth-Line Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC): Results
from the International mRCC Database Consortium (IMDC)
Stukalin, Igor | Wells, J. Connor | Fraccon, Anna | Pasini, Felice | Porta, Camillo | Lalani, Aly-Khan A. | Srinivas, Sandy | Bowman, I. Alex | Brugarolas, James | Lee, Jae-Lyun | Donskov, Frede | Beuselinck, Benoit | Bamias, Aristotelis | Rini, Brian I. | Sim, Hao-Wen | Agarwal, Neeraj | Rha, Sun-Young | Kanesvaran, Ravindran | Choueiri, Toni K. | Heng, Daniel Y.C. Impact of Aspirin and Non-Aspirin Nonsteroidal Anti-Infl ammatory Drugs on Outcomes
in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Hamieh, L. | Moreira, R.B. | Lin, X. | Simantov, R. | Choueiri, T.K. | McKay, R.R. Perioperative Statin Use and Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Partial Nephrectomy
Joshi, S.S. | Ruth, K. | Smaldone, M.C. | Chen, D.Y.T. | Greenberg, R.E. | Viterbo, R. | Kutikov A., Rafael | Uzzo, R.G. Non-Surgical Ablative Treatment of Distant Extracranial Metastases for Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review
Verbiest, A. | De Meerleer, G. | Albersen, M. | Beuselinck, B. Other Content Clinical Trials Corner
Powles, Thomas | Morrison, Laura | Abstracts of the 16th International Kidney Cancer Symposium | As part of our recent partnership with the Kidney Cancer Association, we are pleased to announce that the abstracts from the organization's Kidney Cancer Symposium, that was held in November 2017 in Miami, have been published as a supplement issue of Kidney Cancer. To view the conference abstracts in the journal, please click here. Videos and presentations from the event can be viewed at the Kidney Cancer Association website. | Most Read KC Articles, January–March 2018 Outcomes of Metastatic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma (chrRCC) in the Targeted Therapy Era: Results from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer Database Consortium (IMDC) (Research Article in Vol.1, Iss.1, 2017)
Yip, Steven M. | Ruiz Morales, Jose M. | Donskov, Frede | Fraccon, Anna | Basso, Umberto | Rini, Brian I. | Lee, Jae Lyun | Bjarnason, Georg A. | Sim, Hao-Wen | Beuselinck, Benoit | Kanesvaran, Ravindran | Brugarolas, James | Koutsoukos, Kostas | Fu, Simon Yuen Fai | Yuasa, Takeshi | Davis, Ian | Alva, Ajjai | Kollmannsberger, Christian | Choueiri, Toni K. | Heng, Daniel Y.C. Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Current Management and Best Practice (Review Article in Vol.1, Iss.2, 2017)
Salgia, Meghan | Adashek, Jacob | Bergerot, Paulo | Pal, Sumanta K. Therapeutic Sequencing in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (Review Article in Vol.1, Iss.1, 2017)
Maia, Manuel Caitano | Dizman, Nazli | Salgia, Meghan | Pal, Sumanta Kumar Molecular Classification of Renal Cell Carcinoma and Its Implication in Future Clinical Practice (Review Article in Vol.1, Iss.1, 2017)
Casuscelli, Jozefina | Vano, Yann-Alexandre | Fridman, Wolf Herve | Hsieh, James J. Genomic Alterations and Outcomes with VEGF-Targeted Therapy in Patients with Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (Research Article in Vol.1, Iss.1, 2017)
Carlo, M.I. | Manley, B. | Patil, S. | Woo, K.M. | Coskey, D.T. | Redzematovic, A. | Arcila, M. | Ladanyi, M. | Lee, W. | Chen, Y.B. | Lee, C.H. | Feldman, D.R. | Hakimi, A.A. | Motzer, R.J. | Hsieh, J.J. | Voss, M.H. | European Kidney Cancer Symposium The Kidney Cancer Association organizes two conferences each year, one in the spring in Europe and the other in November in Miami, US. The 13th European International Kidney Cancer Symposium will take place in Prague at the end of this month and we are pleased to announce that this new issue of Kidney Cancer will be distributed at the event. Contact the Kidney Cancer Association for details of the event. | |
