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Malcolm Packer

Malcolm is Chief Executive Officer at Kidney Cancer UK and Kidney Cancer Scotland and has worked with the charity in various capacities for over 15 years.

Exploring New Possibilities in Kidney Cancer Detection and Therapy

Exploring New Possibilities in Kidney Cancer Detection and Therapy

This is from the cancernetwork.com At the 2024 Kidney Cancer Research Summit (KCRS), CancerNetwork® spoke with ...

Sex-related differences in kidney cancer

Sex-related differences in kidney cancer

and the prognosis is also worse in males.| The incidence of clear cell renal cell carcinoma is twice as high in males as in females worldwide

Sex-specific survival gene mutations are discovered as clinical predictors of clear cell renal cell carcinoma The ...

Please Give a £2 monthly donation

Please Give a £2 monthly donation

£2| Donation| Featured| giving| standing order| support

In this day and age, £2 is not a great deal of money. Many people spend almost twice as much on a medium-sized cup ...

Patient Survey 10-Year Review

Patient Survey 10-Year Review

Featured| kidney cancer| kidney cancer patient survey

Kidney Cancer UK is delighted to present our 10-Year Review of the Kidney Cancer UK Patient Survey results from ...

Manifesto 2024

Manifesto 2024

election| manifesto| patient support

The election is looming and many of us are being ‘doorstepped’ by political parties seeking our vote to put them ...

The lessons I learned from the teacher I never wanted

The lessons I learned from the teacher I never wanted

blog| MBE| Phil Rchards MBE| Scanxiety

A blog by Phil Richards MBE - June 2024 Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read my story and I hope you ...

What is Renal Artery Embolisation?

What is Renal Artery Embolisation?

Embolisation| renal artery embolisation

By Hazel Jackson Kidney Cancer UK Healthcare Professional Nurse A Renal Artery Embolisation simply means ...

Living With Kidney Cancer Patient Day – Leeds

Living With Kidney Cancer Patient Day – Leeds

Featured| Living With Kidney Cancer Patient Days| LWKC Days

Kidney Cancer UK are delighted to announce the return of, in July 2024 as physical events, our free Living With ...

New PET agent offers ‘exceptional’ imaging of kidney cancer

New PET agent offers ‘exceptional’ imaging of kidney cancer

agent 68Ga-DPI-4452| Debio 0328| PET Scan| positron emission computed tomography

A new positron emission computed tomography (PET) agent achieves “exceptional” imaging quality of lesions in ...

New biomarkers for RCC subtypes improving diagnosis & treatment

New biomarkers for RCC subtypes improving diagnosis & treatment

biomarkers| Clinical Trials| diagnosis| geonomics| renal cell carcinoma| study| tumors

Massive study identifies new biomarkers for renal cancer subtypes, improving diagnosis ...

Change in taste? You’re not alone

Change in taste? You’re not alone

change in taste| diet| eating| food| taste

Taste changes are common with a kidney cancer diagnosis, this can either be down to treatment or the cancer ...

Whack-A-Mole with kidney cancer

Whack-A-Mole with kidney cancer

Charlotte Connolly| hysteroscopy| Meno Belly| menopause| minerva coil| patient blog| transvaginal scan

A blog by Charlotte Connolly In January 2019 I asked my husband to leave. And my journey began! I was ...