In the bucolic farming villages that dot the countryside of Europe’s Balkan Peninsula, a hardy plant with a reedy stem, heart-shaped leaves and yellow bugle-like flowers grows thick in the wheat ...

Aristolochia clematitis, or European birthwort, is a common plant throughout the Balkans. Results of the study, which focused on the most common form of kidney cancer – clear-cell renal cell carcinoma ...

An apparent link between exposure to aristolochic acid and incidence of kidney cancer, has been uncovered by researchers conducting a new study on a large cohort of kidney cancer patients in Europe.

A new study on a large cohort of kidney cancer patients in Europe sheds light on the genetic architecture of the disease -- and reveals an apparent link between exposure to aristolochic acid and ...

Aristolochic acid (AA), a component of a plant used in herbal remedies since ancient times, leads to kidney failure and upper urinary tract cancer (UUC) in individuals exposed to the toxin. In a study ...

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Aristolochic acid (AA), a component of a plant used in herbal remedies since ancient times, leads to kidney failure and upper urinary tract cancer (UUC) in individuals exposed to the toxin, according ...