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Robotic Surgery, Clinical Trials for Renal Cancer
UAB Urology Researchers at Forefront of Effort
to Find Ways to Prevent Kidney Stones

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UA B M I ST

NIDDK Funds Primary Hyperoxaluria Project

MIST provides 24-hour consultation and referral services to physicians.

Renal cell carcinomas originate in the
renal cortex and are responsible for up to
85% of all primary renal neoplasms.

UAB Offers Robotic Surgery, Clinical
Trials for Renal Cell Carcinoma
Although any effective medical treatment for advanced

Featured Clinical Trial

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invasive techniques which have been significantly

renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains elusive, earlier

facilitated by the use of robotic surgical systems.”

diagnoses due to incidental CT and MRI findings can lead

Sudarshan joined UAB in 2012. He and urologists

to curative surgery, now including minimally invasive,

James Bryant, MD, and Jeffrey Nix, MD, evaluate patients

kidney-sparing robotic procedures at UAB.

at The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital and perform several

“RCC is a difficult disease when it has spread,” says
urologic surgeon Sunil Sudarshan, MD, who leads the

robotic procedures weekly at UAB Hospital.
In collaboration with interventional radiologists, they

renal cancer program at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer

also offer needle ablation for small renal tumors. The

Center. “However, surgical treatments for tumors when

modality used to treat kidney tumors is an individualized

they are confined to the kidney result in excellent cancer

treatment based on patients’ wishes, comorbidities, size,

control rates. Our team is routinely utilizing minimally

location, and other tumor characteristics, says Sudarshan.

Contact MIST by calling 800.822.MIST (6478).
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