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Kidney Cancer Patient Stories

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  • Ken Navatta

    Ken Navatta

    It didn't seem possible that there could be an upside to having Stage 4 renal cancer. But sitting in Dr. Robert Uzzo's office at Fox Chase Cancer Center in August 2010, Ken Navatta and his wife Laura heard that there was plenty of ammunition to fight the cancer that had started in Ken's kidney and moved aggressively to his lungs.  And, that thanks to his otherwise good health and young age (he was 49), Ken was a prime candidate for surgery and treatment.

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  • Edward Bandtlow

    Edward Bandtlow

    Up until July 2008, Ed Bandtlow, a busy executive career coach, had been ignoring the suspicious spot on his face. A physician friend finally told Ed that he was long overdue to see a dermatologist. Ed, who admittedly dragged his feet too long, looked on-line for a young doctor who used cutting edge techniques. Dr. Perlis diagnosed Ed with squamous cell carcinoma (non-melanoma skin cancer) on the left side of his face. But that was only the beginning.

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  • Raymond Bebak

    Raymond Bebak

    With more than 20 years experience as a mechanical engineer at Boeing, Raymond Bebak embraces new technology. So when Ray learned he had kidney cancer, he looked for a treatment facility with the most experienced surgeons who use sophisticated tools and the latest technology.

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  • Patti Callahan

    Patti Callahan

    Patti Callahan doesn't consider herself an alarmist. But when ongoing symptoms of persistent back pain were followed with incidents of stress incontinence, she knew something wasn't right. Although a bulging disc and 2 pregnancies could have accounted for both symptoms, Patti's family doctor ordered a renal and pelvic ultrasound in June of 2009. It revealed what she had feared, a small lesion in the mid to upper section of her left kidney. A CT scan confirmed a 2.3 centimeter mass suspicious for renal cell carcinoma.

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  • Shirley Danner

    Shirley Danner

    Forty-five days. That's how long it took from the moment in February 2011 that Shirley Danner, who was 73, felt a lump on her side when she rolled over in bed to the day her cancerous kidney was removed at Fox Chase Cancer Center. "It all happened so fast," said Shirley, who lives in Willow Street, Pennsylvania, about two hours from the Fox Chase campus.

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