Evaluation of Renal Masses Using Magnetic Resonance

该项目将研究一种成像工具的使用，以识别与侵袭性肾癌相比可能无害的肾癌。目前，这种分化需要活检，结果往往是不必要的手术切除整个或部分病变的肾脏。从长远来看，这个项目将提供知识，以非侵入性方式确定肾癌的侵袭性，而不必进行手术。这种方法以前对乳腺癌是成功的。

This project will investigate use of an imaging instrument to identify renal cancers that are potentially harmless from aggressive renal cancers. Currently, such differentiation requires biopsies, and the outcome is often unnecessary surgical removal of whole or part of the diseased kidney. Long term, this project will provide knowledge to determine aggressiveness of a renal cancer non-invasively, without having to perform an operation. The approach was previously successful for breast cancer.