All You Need to Know About Kidney Cancer

If you are reading about the prognosis of kidney cancer, I believe you are well aware of kidneys, their functions, and kidney cancer. In India, the projected incidence of kidney cancer is about 2/100,000 population (males) and among females, it is nearly 1/100,000 population. Once the cancer is detected a set Performa of staging is followed by oncologists worldwide, to categorize the tumor and decide a management plan accordingly.

Staging in Kidney cancer:

A standard of staging a tumor has been provided by the Anand Cancer and is followed worldwide. Staging takes place based on certain factors which include:

Size of the tumor (T)
Metastasis or spread to close by organs like lung and blood vessels (M)
Spread to distant organs like bones, brain and lymph nodes (N)

Dr. Jayesh R. Shah