Camera on Cancer Research: Targeting the Metabolic Basis of Kidney Cancer

Marston Linehan, M.D., Chief of the Urologic Oncology Branch in NCI’s Center for Cancer Research, has been researching kidney cancer for over three decades. In this video, he discusses how his group’s study of a thousand families with kidney cancer led to the discovery of the genes that cause this disease. Most recently, Dr. Linehan led The Cancer Genome Atlas’s characterization of the most common type of kidney cancer called clear cell kidney carcinoma, which uncovered the metabolic basis of this disease. To learn more about Dr. Linehan’s research, please visit http://ccr.cancer.gov/staff/staff.asp?name=linehan.