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CRUK Cambridge Centre: Urological Malignancies
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Posting about urological cancer research, education and events from the Urological Malignancies Virtual Institute at the @crukcamcentre.bsky.social. Find out more at: www.crukcc.org/urology
Interested in kidney cancer? Our colleagues in the Early Cancer Institute are offering two funded, non-clinical PhD projects in kidney cancer: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/early-c...
Early Cancer Institute Non-Clinical PhD Studentships 2026
The Early Cancer Institute https://www.earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/ at the University of Cambridge invites applications from highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals capable of thinking and working
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November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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The UK’s first one-stop kidney cancer clinic at @cuh.nhs.uk is transforming kidney cancer diagnosis. With a confocal microscope, patients can get a biopsy, diagnosis & treatment plan – all on the same day.

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October 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🚨 We’re looking for an Academic Clinical Fellow in Urology ST1/2 level. An exciting opportunity to join the University of Cambridge, contribute to cutting-edge research + develop your clinical career.
📍Cambridge
🗓️ Applications open now via Oriel:
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October 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The third blog in our series on INKCC is out now: recommendations for assessing pathological response in neoadjuvant kidney cancer trials
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October 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🚨 New blog: Our researchers publish new data demonstrating the prevalence of kidney cancer in high-risk individuals, using data from our @yorkshirecancer.bsky.social funded kidney screening trial.
Read more 👉 www.cambridge-urologicalmalignancies.org.uk/post/urologi...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We've just shared the second blog in our series about the work of the International Neoadjuvant Kidney Cancer Consortium (INKCC), a group of experts building strategy in research on neoadjuvant therapies for patients with kidney cancer:
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Finding and building consensus in kidney cancer trials
In this second part of our blog series on the work of the International Neoadjuvant Kidney Cancer Consortium (INKCC) we consider how the group has found and built consensus, and how to proceed through...
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July 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Congratulations to Harveer and Simon on publishing outcomes from their CANCAP03 trial
A short course of targeted therapy prior to surgery can influence the biology of prostate cancer, even in men without known DNA repair gene mutations, finds a trial led by @crukcamurol.bsky.social members.

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June 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Congratulations our own Tom Mitchell on winning the Christopher G Wood Rising Star Award at #IKCSEU2025 earlier this month - very well deserved!
May 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
New analysis by Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research in collaboration with UMVI researchers, using data from our world-first Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial, shows that screening for kidney cancer is potentially cost effective. Read more: doi.org/10.1038/s414... (1/6)
May 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Rebecca Wray, joint first author on this paper, presented her work at the @theaacr.bsky.social Annual Meeting this weekend
April 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Using a machine learning model to analyse data from the NAXIVA trial, @crukcamurol.bsky.social members have discovered early markers of response in patients treated for kidney cancer with venous tumour thrombus using a drug called axitinib.

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April 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New work led by James Jones, published this week in @natcomms.nature.com, has discovered early markers of response in patients treated for kidney cancer with venous tumour thrombus (VTT) using a drug called axitinib.
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Researchers use AI and trial data to predict treatment response in kidney cancer patients | CRUK CC
About 10–15% of cases of kidney cancer develop venous tumour thrombus (VTT), an unusual phenomenon where the tumour invades out of the kidney into the major blood vessels of the abdomen, potentially t...
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April 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM