... CT scan, that the patient had an inflamed appendix that needed to be removed immediately and that he also had renal cell carcinoma on his right kidney. Medicated against pain, Behra remembers no shock. In February 1998 his right kidney was ...

... has became his new full-time job. He had already tried chemotherapy. It hadn't worked; it rarely does for renal cell carcinoma. A newer treatment, interleukin2, failed as well. It does so in four out of five kidney cancer patients. The ...

... chamber of commerce from its inception in 1995 until he was elected mayor in 1999. He survived his first battle with renal cell carcinoma in 1999, when he had a kidney removed. In September he had another surgery for the same type of cancer, which ...