Kidney Cancer

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Introduction

Statistics and causes regarding kidney cancer

Kidney cancer growth behavior

Kidney cancer symptoms

Kidney cancer diagnostic tests

Staging of kidney cancer

Treatment of kidney cancer

5-year survival rates for kidney cancer

What's new regarding kidney cancer

Summary

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Introduction:

Kidney cancer is responsible for about 3% of all cancers. It usually occurs on one kidney. As we can live on only one kidney, this gives the oncologist the chance to cure the patient by taking the affected kidney out (radical nephrectomy), which is one of the more successful therapies for kidney cancer.

However, in order to have a good cure rate, the cancer needs to be detected early. Fortunately this often is the case as blood in the urine (hematuria) often occurs still at an an early stage. Blood in the urine is an important symptom, which should alert the patient and physician alike to check out the kidney.

The old name for kidney cancer was "hypernephroma". However, nowadays only the older physicians will use this name, but you may still find it mentioned in some of the literature regarding kidney cancer. The actual medical term for kidney cancer is "renal cell carcinoma", which is the correct pathological term, but consists of three words. Even doctors relate easier to the two word term "kidney cancer".

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References:

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