 Hi, I'm Keri Konoski and this is Kidney Cancer News. What can I do to help? Caregivers and family members play an important and prominent role throughout the kidney cancer treatment process. The Kidney Cancer Association is pleased to offer lots of helping hands as part of our commitment to supporting caregivers of those battling kidney cancer. See our homepage at kidneycancer.org for details. March is Kidney Cancer Awareness Month. You are invited to participate in a day-long global web chat on Facebook in observance of World Kidney Day, March 13. World Kidney Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our overall health and to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide. In other news, renal cell carcinoma is a comprehensive publication that explores the most common type of kidney cancer. More than 60,000 people are diagnosed with RCC each year and this guide provides valuable information to help them upon diagnosis, including sections on staging, treatment options and side effect management as well as a list of available advocacy and financial resources available in PDF and print formats at no charge. And finally in the news, perioperative blood transfusion worsens kidney cancer patient survival. Receivable blood transfusion significantly reduced cancer-specific and recurrence-free survival at five years follow-up on univariate analysis. For details on this and other stories, be certain to visit the press room section at kidneycancer.org and bookmark the page to stay abreast of cutting edge cancer research. News items are added each week. With kidney cancer news, I'm Bill Brough. Join us again next month for more kidney cancer news.