Credit: Elizabethe Holland Durando
When kidney cancer is diagnosed early — before it spreads — 80 percent of patients survive. But early diagnosis is a challenge. Now, Washington University School of Medicine researchers Evan D. Kharasch, MD, PhD (left) and Jeremiah J. Morrissey, PhD, have developed a noninvasive method to screen for kidney cancer by measuring the presence of proteins in the urine.