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John Theurer Cancer Center Urologist Urges that More Be Done to Detect and Treat Kidney Cancer in American Indians and Native Alaskans.
For the past two years, Richard A. Watson, M.D., a John Theurer Cancer Center urologist, has been studying the incidence and mortality - the rates at which cancer causes illness and death - with respect to several urological cancers that occur among American Indian and Native Alaskan men and women.
In the October 2008 issue of the medical journal Urology, Dr. Watson focuses on cancers that develop in the kidney - a lethal disease for which American Indians are at particularly high risk.
Dr. Watson makes a plea for enhancing research into improved methods for the detection and treatment of kidney cancer, especially in this population, which is at a higher risk of developing and dying from kidney cancer than is any other ethnic group.
In his commentary, "Kidney Cancer in American Indian and Native Alaskan Men and Women - Time to Notice, Time to Care," Dr. Watson urges his fellow urologists to "take a leadership role in ensuring first-class prevention, detection, and treatment of renal cancer for our nation's first race."