HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 25, 2026--
Each March, communities across the country unite for Kidney Cancer Awareness Month, a time to highlight one of the most prevalent and increasingly diagnosed cancers. Kidney cancer is one of the 10 most common cancers for both men and women in the U.S., and it’s estimated that nearly 81,000 people will be diagnosed in 2026 alone.
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The Kidney Cancer Association (KCA), a global community dedicated to serving and empowering patients and caregivers and leading change through advocacy, research and education, is spearheading activities to elevate public understanding of the disease and fuel progress and hope for every person impacted by kidney cancer.
This month serves as an opportunity to create awareness of the signs, symptoms, and risk factors, improve early detection and support continued research — all crucial ways to bring attention to a type of cancer that often has no early symptoms.
Kidney Cancer Association Awareness Activities
Throughout March, the KCA leads nationwide initiatives encouraging individuals, families, and communities to get involved and take visible action under theme “Unstoppable Together.” Key awareness efforts include:
“Kidney cancer is often diagnosed at a later stage because it can develop without clear early symptoms,” said Gretchen E. Vaughan, President and CEO, Kidney Cancer Association. “That’s why robust and sustained investment in research is critical to improve early detection tools and advance new treatment options to improve outcomes for patients.”
More than 675,000 people currently live with kidney cancer, and research support is vital to continue to fuel progress for scientific advancements for patients. Congress recently restored $15 million to the federal Kidney Cancer Research Program — a step in the right direction that reaffirms that awareness and advocacy can lead to change.
To learn more about kidney cancer and to participate in the KCA community during Kidney Cancer Awareness Month, visit kidneycancer.org, engage on social using #OrangeUp via Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, listen to the Kidney Cancer Unfiltered podcast, and more.
About the Kidney Cancer Association
The Kidney Cancer Association was founded in 1990 by Eugene P. Schonfeld and a small group of patients and doctors in Chicago, Illinois and has grown into an international non-profit organization. The KCA promotes scientific advances through two annual research symposiums and a robust grant program, participates in legislative advocacy, and seeks to be a source of education and resources for patients, caregivers, and anyone impacted by kidney cancer.
Landmarks and buildings across the country are illuminated orange during the month of March in honor of Kidney Cancer Awareness Month. Pictured is the I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting higher Wednesday ahead of Wall Street’s main event, which is coming after trading ends for the day when Nvidia reports how much profit it made during the end of 2025.
The S&P 500 rose 0.5% in early trading as moves calmed in the market from earlier in the week, when stocks swung sharply as investors tried to separate potential losers from winners in the artificial-intelligence boom. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 159 points, or 0.3%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.7% higher.
Nvidia’s chips are at the center of the AI frenzy, and it’s become the most influential stock in the U.S. market because it’s the most valuable. Analysts are expecting another blowout report, with estimates for Nvidia’s profit to surge nearly 70% from a year earlier to $37.52 billion. That’s would mean it made more than $400 million per day during the three months through Jan. 25.
Nvidia’s profit reports have become a bellwether for the market, not only because of how big the company has become in size but also because of how influential AI has become over the market’s moves. In past years, the AI frenzy helped stocks run to record after record amid hopes that it would mean higher productivity for the economy and bigger profits.
More recently, though, concerns have climbed about whether companies like Alphabet and Amazon are spending so much on chips from Nvidia and other equipment that they’ll never be able to make back the investments through future gains in productivity. If that leads to a pullback in spending, it would hit Nvidia directly.
Investors have also begun focusing on companies and industries that could get undercut by AI-powered competitors. That has led to sudden and swift sell-offs for stocks seen as potentially at threat, and the worries have rolled through the stock market from industries as seemingly disparate as software, trucking logistics and legal services.
“While those concerns are real, we believe investors would be wise to balance them out with offsetting trends that may be underappreciated in the current wall of worry headline cycle,” according to Darrell Cronk, chief investment officer for Wealth & Investment Management at Wells Fargo.
Among them is the strong growth in profit that big U.S. companies have been reporting so far for the end of 2025. That has helped strengthen some corners of the U.S. stock market that had been overshadowed by AI mania and Big Tech, particularly stocks of smaller companies.
Cava Group, the fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant chain, jumped 18.6% after delivering better profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Its revenue for a fiscal year also topped $1 billion for the first time, up 22.5% from the year earlier.
Axon Enterprise leaped 16.5% after the seller of Tasers and body cameras with AI voice-activated assistants likewise reported bigger profit and revenue than analysts expected.
They helped offset a 14.2% drop for First Solar, which reported a weaker profit than analysts expected.
In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe and Asia.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 2.2%, and South Korea’s Kospi gained 1.9% for two of the bigger moves.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury inched up to 4.05% from 4.04% late Tuesday.
AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed.
A pedestrian walks outside the New York Stock Exchange during a snow storm, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Dealers watch computer monitors near the screens showing the foreign exchange rates at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Snow falls outside the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
People sit on the chairs near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), center, the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, left, and the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ) at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Currency traders celebrate as they work in the office with a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) of over 6,000 points at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (Kim Sung-min/Yonhap via AP)
