KCA Announces New Italian Website to Help Kidney Cancer Patients and Their Families

High quality information for kidney cancer patients and their families is available at WWW.TUMOREDELRENE.ORG, the new Italian website entirely dedicated to this malignancy.

(PRWEB) May 10, 2007 -- The Internet has become one of the major sources of medical information in Italy. In the last year 15.6 million Italians chose the web to search for health references. WWW.TUMOREDELRENE.ORG is the result of a collaborative effort between the Aiom Foundation, the non-profit organization that represents Italian medical oncologists, and the US-based Kidney Cancer Association (KCA), the only global organization dedicated to the eradication of renal cancers.

"This website is one of the tools with which the Aiom Foundation carries on its mission to be more responsive to patients' needs," says professor Roberto Labianca, President of the Foundation. He added, "Kidney cancer affects 8,500 people every year in Italy, but it is not a very well known disease. Patients need all information we have on innovative therapies and recent findings. Only in the last few months, new molecules, targeted 'bullets', are available to Italians. These agents are able to prolong patients' survival".

KCA president Bill Bro said, "We are grateful to be able to extend our outreach to patients in Europe. This collaboration represents a significant first step in this direction."

The Kidney Cancer Association, founded by a small group of US patients in 1990, now represents an international network of survivors and their families, and includes more than 30,000 people in 100 countries. According to American Cancer Society statistics, more than 50,000 Americans will be diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2007.

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