Meeting Reports:
Sixth BHD Symposium and First International Upstate Kidney Cancer Symposium: latest scientific and clinical discoveries
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Gennady Bratslavsky1,2, Mark R. Woodford1,2,3, Michael Daneshvar1,2, Mehdi Mollapour1,2,3
1 Department of Urology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
2 Cancer Research Institute, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Correspondence to:
Mehdi Mollapour, email:
Gennady Bratslavsky, email:
Keywords: FLCN, Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, renal cell carcinoma, clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Received: November 25, 2015 Accepted: January 29, 2016 Published: February 25, 2016
Abstract
The Sixth BHD Symposium and First International Upstate Kidney Cancer Symposium concluded in September 2015, in Syracuse, NY, USA. The program highlighted recent findings in a variety of areas, including drug development, therapeutics and surgical management of patients with BHD and multi-focal renal tumors, as well as multidisciplinary approaches for patients with localized, locally advanced and metastatic renal cell carcinoma.