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ORPHA:319319

Renal medullary carcinoma

low confidenceDisorder

Publications

1,519

Trials

17

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,380

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

3/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Renal medullary carcinoma is a rare, aggressive subtype of renal cell carcinoma characterized by a large, white or tan, firm, infiltrative tumor with microabscess-like foci centered in the renal medulla, typically presenting with hematuria, abdominal/flank pain, weight loss and fever. It is associated with sickle cell trait and disease and metastasis to the bones and lungs is common at time of diagnosis.

How rare: <1 / 1 000 000 — fewer than one in a million. In a city the size of Kolkata, that might mean on the order of fifteen people.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (5)

Renal Medullary Carcinoma · carcinoma of renal medulla · kidney medullary carcinoma · renal medulla carcinoma · renal medullary carcinoma

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

3/6 stages with a signal

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    1,519 matched papers (983 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedPresent

    22 HPO annotations (e.g. Congenital nystagmus; Presenile cataracts; Hypoplasia of the fovea) Source

  4. Animal modelNot found

    No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  5. Orphan designationNot found

    No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source

  6. Interventional trialPresent

    17 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (5 recruiting in sample)

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

22

Associated phenotypes · MONDO:0006260

  • Congenital nystagmus
  • Presenile cataracts
  • Hypoplasia of the fovea
  • Visual impairment
  • Remnants of the hyaloid vascular system

Showing 5 of 22 — open Monarch for the full list.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.

Monarch fetch 2026-07-29

Therapies

Designations, candidates, and chemicals

FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.

Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)

No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.

Open Targets candidates

15

Drugs / clinical candidates · MONDO_0006260

CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)

No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

1,519

1,519 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.

1,519 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).

983 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 1,519 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,380

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Msaouel P29 papers · 2026

    Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77025.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Tannir NM25 papers · 2026

    Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77025.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Genovese G13 papers · 2026

    Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77025.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Rao P12 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Sheth RA8 papers · 2026

    Department of Interventional Radiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Gao J7 papers · 2026

    Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Karam JA7 papers · 2026

    Department of Urology, Division of Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Karki M6 papers · 2026

    Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Walker CL6 papers · 2025

    Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Daw NC5 papers · 2026

    Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

17

interventional trials for this specific condition

17 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 5 currently recruiting in our sample.

Data as of 11 September 2026

17 interventional trials — more than 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5501 of 7126; this disease is at the 94.4th percentile).

low confidence · 94.4th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

17 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

Observational and natural-history studies

1 observational study matches this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

None of the matched observational studies is currently listed as recruiting.

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Other registries (secondary)

Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.

raw 10 · after dedupe 10 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 10 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-30

Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri

No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).

Uncertain / not reviewed (10)

Where to find support

Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.

Orphanet entry for Renal medullary carcinoma — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Renal medullary carcinoma" OR "carcinoma of renal medulla" OR "carcinoma of the renal medulla" OR "kidney medullary carcinoma" OR "renal medulla carcinoma"

Run this search on Europe PMC

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Renal medullary carcinoma" OR "carcinoma of renal medulla" OR "carcinoma of the renal medulla" OR "kidney medullary carcinoma" OR "renal medulla carcinoma"

Interventional trials matched via: phrase (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 17 interventional · 1 observational · 2 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (1519) is implausibly high for prevalence class "<1 / 1 000 000" — treat as possible over-matching, not a measure of research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T13:25:23.272Z