Onconephrology Onconephrology Onconephrology (from the Ancient Greek onkos (ὄγκος) meaning bulk, mass, or tumor, nephros (νεφρός) meaning kidney, and the suffix -logy (-λογία), meaning "study of") is a burgeoning new specialty in nephrology that deals with the study of kidney diseases in cancer patients. A nephrologist who takes care of patients with cancer is called an Onconephrologist. This branch of nephrology encompasses both the hematologic and oncology based cancers and their treatment related complications that deal with the kidney. Unlike general nephrology, there are several aspects of onconephrology that are unique. Kidney failure from break down of cancer cells, usually after
Body without organs the term took on an expanded meaning, referring variously to literal bodies and to a certain perspective on realities of any type. The term's overloaded meaning is provocative, perhaps intentionally. The term originates from Antonin Artaud's radio play "To Have Done with the Judgment of God" (1947): When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom. Deleuze first mentions the phrase in a chapter of "The Logic of Sense" called "The Schizophrenic and the Little Girl", which contrasts two distinct and