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The global distribution and the average annual percentage changes (AAPCs) in age-standardized incidence rates (ASRs, per 100.000) of kidney cancer at the national level. (a ASR of kidney cancer in 2017; b ASR of kidney cancer in 2030; c AAPC of kidney cancer ASR between 1990 and 2017; d AAPC of kidney cancer ASR between 2018 and 2030).
Here, in a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis of kidney cancer (29,020 cases and 835,670 controls), we identified 63 susceptibility regions (50 novel) containing 108 independent risk loci....
The Latin American Renal Cancer Group (LARCG) was founded in 2013. This is a non-profit collaborative group designed to foster scientific knowledge in all areas of kidney cancer, and to establish international cooperation among well-recognized oncologic institutions. Since its creation, LARCG has reported data from Latin America to the scientific community and has promoted accredited information and advocacy principles for patients, lay people, and medical colleagues....
Some countries in Latin America (LA) may have the greatest increase in the incidence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in both sexes in the coming decades, according to some projections. Increasing efforts to study prognostic factors related to RCC may shorten the regional discrepancies, particularly in the scenario of scarce literature in LA, in comparison to Europe or North America....
Here, in a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis of kidney cancer (29,020 cases and 835,670 controls), we identified 63 susceptibility regions (50 novel) containing 108 independent risk loci....
The LARCG (Latin American Renal Cancer Group) is a group of scientific and educational, multicentric, multidisciplinary and independent. It is not for profit, and the term of operation is indeterminate. It consists of Urologists, Pathologists and Oncologists, as well as professionals and researchers related to the field of health, belonging to Hospitals in Latin America, Spain and the United States.
