Evaluation of Renal Masses Using Magnetic Resonance

本项目将研究使用成像仪器识别侵袭性肾癌中潜在无害的肾癌。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肾脏。从长远来看，该项目将提供非侵入性确定肾癌侵袭性的知识，而无需进行手术。这种方法以前在治疗乳腺癌方面取得了成功。

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.