Kidney cancer

Kidney cancer's disease overview

Kidney cancer is the 9th incidence in adults and third in the urinary cancer (after prostate cancer and bladder cancer)) But the cancer has the highest mortality.

Common disease in men with a male/female ratio = 2/1. The highest age group is 60-70 years old. Kidney cancer is very rare in patients under 50 years old.

However, the cases of kidney cancer in children . The disease accounts for 5% of cancer cases in young children. The most common age from 3-4 years old, of which about 1-2% have family nature (genetic disease). Kidney cancer in children often combine with many birth defects such as urinary defects, iris or half -enlargement ...

Is kidney cancer contagious ? This is a non -communicable disease but has a genetic factor in some cases (see the cause)

Causes of Kidney cancer's disease

Causes of kidney cancer is not known.

Some risk factors for kidney cancer:

  • Smoking: Smoking increases the risk of kidney cancer twice as increased
    • Exposure to toxic chemicals: Workers are exposed to chemicals such as aniline dyes or Heavy metals are at higher risk of kidney cancer
  • obesity: obese people are at higher risk of kidney cancer.
  • Use prolonged painkillers such as paracetamol or NSAID (for example: ibuprofen, aspirin)
  • genetic kidney cancer: accounting for less than 5% of the total number of cancer patients kidney. Some syndrome can lead to kidney cancer such as Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (VHL Syndrome), BIRT-HGGG-DUBE syndrome or tubers fibrosis.

    Symptoms of Kidney cancer's disease

    Symptoms of kidney cancer are manifested by classical triangle: blood, lumbar tumors and pain.

  • blood urine: urine is pink, brown or mild changes. If the amount of blood is small can not be observed with the naked eye, but only detected on urine analysis test. Dull, continuous and prolonged pain, there are also severe cases of pain. However, most of the kidney tumors deep in the abdomen should be hard to touch, can only be detected on imaging diagnosis such as ultrasound, computerized taboos. Non -specific symptoms:
  • fatigue, anemia
  • Sudden weight loss of unknown reasons
  • Fever

    • The stages of kidney cancer : 4 stages of kidney cancer

  • In the early stage of kidney cancer : The tumor is still in the kidney, there is no typical clinical signs, the patient may have microscopic hematoma ( Unable to see with the naked eye, must be determined through the test) but it is difficult to touch the clinical tumor
  • Stage 2 kidney cancer : The tumor starts to grow but still localized in the kidneys. The patient begins with symptoms.

    • Stage 3 kidney cancer : Cancer has invaded surrounding areas such as the tissue around the kidneys, adrenal glands, large veins

    End -stage kidney cancer: metastatic cancer to other parts of the body, patients tired, exhausted gradually. >

    People at risk for Kidney cancer's disease

    Kidney cancer is not a common type of cancer. Some risk subjects of kidney cancer:

  • Men smoking for many years
  • obese people
  • who work in a toxic environment of industrial chemicals and heavy metals. >
  • Users of prolonged painkillers. >

    Prevention of Kidney cancer's disease

    Because the exact cause of kidney cancer has not been determined, there are no specific preventive measures.

    There are some of the following measures:

  • No smoking
  • Minimize the use of stimulant drugs
  • Exercise Sports
  • Safety protection Working in accordance with regulations
  • It is important to go to the health check periodically every year.

    • Diagnostic measures for Kidney cancer's disease

    Diagnosis of kidney cancer is based on clinical and subclinical symptoms.

    Tests in diagnosis of kidney cancer:

  • Urine test: Total urine analysis helps detect blood in urine? Help assess the properties of kidney cancer: Location, quantity, size, surrounding invasion and metastatic metastasis
  • kidney biopsy or cell poke: Take a piece of kidney tissue Doubt by specialized tools and then send a cell test or anatomical surgery Bone base

    • Kidney cancer's disease treatments

    Renal cancer treatment is based on the stage of disease.

    Early stage kidney cancer (1,2):

  • Surgery: Depending on the properties of the tumor that is only partial or the whole kidney has or not, the adrenal gland is not cut. Minimum by heat helps destroy tumors.

    • Stage 3 kidney cancer:

  • Cut the kidney tumor accompanied by additional body treatment.  
  • Cutting away metastatic tumor (if possible) helps improve clinical symptoms
  • Treatment of compression release surgery if any
  • Radiotherapy, anti -compression radiotherapy
  • Pain relief treatment
    • > Treatment and immunotherapy

    See also:

  • Advances in kidney cancer treatment
  • Radio cancer can be prevented How is glomerulonephritis diagnosed?

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