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This week: kidney cancer, Wikipedia, atrial fibrillation

Kidney cancer is often discovered by chance, when a patient receives an imaging scan for something else, says Dr. Oleg Shapiro, a urologist and radiation oncologist at Upstate Medical University.

 

Minimally invasive surgery can usually be done to remove tumors when they are caught early. Shapiro also explains how renal cell carcinoma is the most common type of kidney cancer, how it can be aggressive and what treatments are on the horizon.

 

Also this week:  atrial fibrillation and its connection to stroke, plus Wikipedia and the medical information available at the online encyclopedia.

 

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