Researchers discover genetic cause of second-most common kidney cancer in children
The genetic basis of clear cell sarcoma of the kidney (CCSK), a high-risk childhood cancer known for metastasizing to bone and brain, has remained a mystery since the cancer was first described in the 1970s. A team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital has now uncovered a genetic mutation associated with CCSK that has opened a new path of research and could point the way toward a new diagnostic test for the disease.