Robotics
26 October 2026
SBRT Radiation for Kidney Cancer: When It’s an Alternative to Surgery
Historically, renal cell carcinoma (RCC) was considered a radioresistant malignancy. Conventional external beam radiation therapy, which delivered modest radiation doses divided over several weeks, consistently failed to produce meaningful tumor cell death in primary kidney lesions while exposing adjacent, highly sensitive abdominal organs—including the duodenum, small bowel, liver, and healthy nephrons—to radiation toxicity. Consequently, radiation […]