More Kidney Cancer Patients Have Hereditary Mutations Than Previously Thought

Jul 06, 2018

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Patients with advanced kidney cancer have germline mutations in hereditary cancer-associated genes at higher frequencies than previously thought, including in genes related to kidney and other cancers, according to research done at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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