Kidney Cancer Care - Mayo Clinic

Our surgeons regularly perform highly complex surgeries for kidney cancer at some of the highest numbers in the U.S., so you can feel confident you’re in expert hands.

Kidney preservation. Our surgeons specialize in kidney-sparing surgery and maintaining kidney function, which may help avoid other medical issues later in life, preserving quality of life while providing the same degree of effectiveness in curing people with kidney cancer.
Safer complex surgeries. Our team has vast experience in intricate surgeries and removing tumors intertwined with blood vessels. More surgical experience means better outcomes.
Surgery for advanced disease. From inoperable to operable. Our surgeons have successfully performed surgery on people who were told their kidney tumors were inoperable elsewhere.
Excellent pain management. The surgical team uses a combination of nerve blocks, resulting in less pain. Patients rate their pain 0 or 1 out of 10 on the first day or two after surgery.

Your team consists of global leaders in kidney cancer and includes expert urologic surgeons, medical oncologists, pathologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists and others as appropriate. They collaborate to provide combined medical oncological and surgical opinions and treatment for advanced disease, so you get the best possible outcome. You’ll have access to leading-edge treatments, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, targeted therapy and clinical trials.

Your expert kidney cancer team at Mayo Clinic prioritizes your chance of achieving a cure and the highest quality of life. We extend our expertise in care coordination, working with your local care team so you have a seamless transition back home.

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report. We are a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center with three locations. This esteemed designation means we are driving the future of groundbreaking research, clinical trial access, and innovative therapies.

Complex and Metastatic Kidney Cancer – Multispecialty Care Clinic Provides Personalized Treatment.

One of the most exciting things that we can tell you about treating kidney cancer at Mayo Clinic is we have learned exactly who actually needs treatment, and many people do not. For people that need treatment, we figured out how to treat people with a higher likelihood of cure than ever and less impact on them in terms of recovery, functional loss, or any negative impact on quality of life. By coming to Mayo Clinic, you're really availing yourself to expertise specific to kidney cancer, complex kidney cancer, and metastatic kidney cancer. What our goal is, is to help with higher level complex decision making. And really guide any specific treatments that need to be done at Mayo Clinic.

Whether that be a clinical trial, complex surgical interventions, or other sorts of localized focused therapies. At Mayo Clinic, we developed a multidisciplinary care clinic for patients with kidney cancer where I sit in clinic with one of my colleagues. And we do clinic together so that we can give each patient that comes to see us, not only a surgical opinion but a medical oncology opinion, and offer the best choices for our patients with one stop. You're always going to be more comfortable with the management of your kidney cancer if you've had a second opinion and there's agreement. At any given time, we have complete ability to talk to pathologists, to talk to interventional radiologists, to talk to diagnostic radiologist, to talk to radiation oncology. Those are really the key people who we rely on in this space. But the beauty of Mayo Clinic also is that it's a multi specialty integrated practice.

If there is another surgical specialist who needs to get involved, we really have access to those people very quickly. Any patient anywhere around the world could get a video visit with urology here at Mayo Clinic. And we're very collaborative with the home doctors to help really bring to bear the best of Mayo Clinic and the expertise here. But also with the safety and convenience of being treated by an oncology expert closer to home. Patients that come to Mayo Clinic benefit not only from expertise in routine standard of care, but from the fact that we're doing significant research that has shaped how we treat kidney cancer today. And we're doing the research to assure that we're doing even better with treating kidney cancer tomorrow and beyond.

Expert Care for Complex and Advanced Kidney Cancer: Hope at Mayo Clinic

Unmatched surgical expertise.

The power of seamless collaboration.

Our top priority, your best possible outcome.

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Complex and Metastatic Kidney Cancer – Multispecialty Care Clinic Provides Personalized Treatment.

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center.

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center is nationally accredited by the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer (CoC).