Anand Hospital | Por Mahollo, Athugar Street, Opp., SBI Nanpura, Timaliyawad, Surat, Gujarat(India)
Kidney cancer or renal cancer develops in the cells or tissues of the kidney. And is likely to affect people aged between 60 and 70. And the good news is, if detected earlier it can be easily cured.
Schedule your appointment at Anand Cancer Hospital today: for any cancer-related diagnosis.
Listed below are various types of kidney cancer:
Renal Cell Carcinoma: A common type of cancer that develops in the lining of small tubes in the kidney. Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinomas (ccRCC), Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma (PRCC), Chromophobe RCC, Collecting Duct RCC, Unclassified RCC, Renal Medullary Carcinoma (RMC), and Clear Cell Papillary (CCP) are various types of Renel Cell Carcinoma.
Wills Tumour: Also, knowns as Nephroblastoma is a common type of kidney cancer that usually affects children between the age group of 3-4 years. Favorable Wilms Tumour and Anaplastic Wilms Tumour are two types of Wilms Tumour.
Benign Kidney Tumour: A type of kidney cancer that grows huge but does not spread to other body organs. There might be one or more small cancers, in either or both kidneys. They occur in two types that are Angiomyolipoma and oncocytomas.
If an ultrasound or X-ray is performed on the kidney for any other reason then early-stage cancer might get detected. Thus, making it curable permanently and increasing your survival rate.
The sign and symptoms may include:
Blood in urine
Lower Back pain
Low hemoglobin
Unusual loss in weight.
Abnormal fever
A stage where the cancer cells have spread to blood vessels, lymph nodes, and other organs surrounding the kidney.
When cancer has spread to other parts of the body. It can also be termed secondary cancer or metastasis.
Kidney cancer treatment generally starts with removing cancer b surgery. But in surgery, the removal of the cancer is confined to the kidney only. For removing cancer that has spread to other body parts treatments like immunotherapy, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy is used along with surgery.