A recent small study has shown that patients with advanced kidney cancer who ate a diet high in fibre lived longer when treated with certain cancer drugs called immunotherapies.

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'Helpful in so many ways': Last month Karen McNee from Action Kidney Cancer joined health care professionals from The Royal Surrey Cancer Centre in Guildford and supported them in hosting a kidney cancer patient information day.

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The PARTIAL study is looking at the side effects of two different types of surgery for kidney cancer; removal of the whole kidney (radical nephrectomy) and removal of part of the kidney (partial nephrectomy).

It is open to people:

Who have an early stage kidney tumour (up to 7 cm in diameter on a CT scan)
And the tumour has not spread outside the kidney.

The aims of the study are to find out:

How well the kidney, or kidneys, work after surgery
How good the type of surgery is at getting rid of the cancer
More about side effects of surgery
How the two different surgeries affect quality of life
How much it costs to have each type of surgery. This is both how much it costs the NHS to do the operation. And how much it costs people taking part for things such as travel to the hospital for appointments.

There are 34 sites in this trial across England, Scotland and Wales. 9 new sites have recently been included in the study.

If you have early stage kidney cancer and have not yet had surgery, and you are interested in taking part in this study, please visit our clinical trial database or respond to this post with your questions: