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Kidney Cancer

Chemotherapy before surgery better for children with Wilms’ tumor

A study that was published in the European Journal of Cancer says that children who receive pre-surgical chemotherapy required less treatment and experienced fewer long term side effects. Overall survival was the same for those who received chemotherapy before surgery or after surgery however, the results of the trial strongly suggest that pre-operative chemotherapy should be the standard of care [...]