If your doctor has told you that you have kidney cancer, surgery may be the standard treatment for your disease. If your cancer has not spread to other areas of your body, normally no further treatment will be given after surgery. Patients in this study will have standard surgery to remove the kidney cancer. The majority of the tumor will be sent to a laboratory. In the laboratory, scientists will try to make a vaccine from the tumor.
Vaccines are substances that provoke the body s disease-fighting response.
A vaccine can be made for a patient from the patient s own tumor. When such vaccines are injected into the patient, they may cause the body to attack cancer cells. Furthermore, this clinical research study may involve unforeseeable risks to you. Enrollment in this study must take place prior to removal of a kidney after the diagnosis of renal cell cancer. The cancer should not have spread beyond the kidney or immediately surrounding area.