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Spending time with your children is important, especially when you have the chance to teach them something new. When lunch and dinner roll around, why not have them help prepare some delicious and healthy meals?

A biopsy is done to remove tissue or cells from the body for exam under a microscope. The tissue sample is removed with a needle to check for cancer or other abnormal cells. It also helps check how well the kidney is working.

Immunotherapy is a treatment that use medicines to kill cancer cells or slow their growth. It’s not the same as chemotherapy (chemo).

Kidney disease (renal failure) is short-term or permanent damage to the kidneys that results in loss of normal kidney function.

Detailed information on kidney disorders

Kidney failure happens when damage results in loss of normal kidney function. It may also be called end stage renal disease (ESRD).