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Kidney Cancer USA is a blog about kidney cancer to provide information for both patient and health professionals!
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
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1. General Health Tests
Medical history
Family history
Physical exam
2. Imaging Tests
Computed Tomography (CT) scan
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan
Ultrasound (US)
Ureteroscopy
3. Blood Tests
Complete blood count (CBC)
Blood chemistry tests
4. Urine Tests
Urinalysis
Urine cytology
5. Tissue Tests
Many kidney cancers are found by chance during imaging tests given for other health problems. Other times, testing is started when a person has signs or symptoms of kidney cancer. This article describes the tests for kidney cancer is first suspected o ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
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1. The Decision is Entirely Yours
2. Questions About Kidney Cancer Treatment
Questions to ask your doctors about testing
Questions to ask your doctors about treatments
Questions to ask your doctors about clinical trials
3. Deciding Between Options
Getting a second opinion
Things you can do to prepare
Getting support
Cancer can be very stressful. While absorbing the fact that you have cancer, you must also learn about tests and treatments. And, the time you have to decide on a treatment plan may feel short. This article aims to help you talk with your d ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
According
to the data obtained from the studies, renal cell carcinoma constitutes
approximately 90% of 65,150 new cancer cases diagnosed and is also the main
cause of 13,680 deaths in the year of 2013. Especially with recent advances in
imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) and increasing access to these technologies, renal masses
diagnosed with symptoms at the late stage have begun to be caught at much
earlier stages. While the percentage of tumors diagnosed
incidentally in 1970 ranged from 3% to 13%, this rate now ranges from 48% to
66%. How ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
Many renal masses do not give any sign or symptoms until they reach the late stages and the disease progresses. Already more than 50% of the diagnosis of Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) is made incidentally. Most of these incidental diagnoses occur during the non-invasive imaging researches such as ultrasound, which are ordered for various non-specific reasons or abdominal symptoms. [89,100]
Although the classic triad of flank pain, macroscopic hematuria, and palpable abdominal mass has been reported in patients with aggressive and advanced disease of Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), these 3 symptoms ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
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1. Survival Rates for Renal Cell Carcinoma
2. Anatomical Prognostic Factors
3. Histological Prognostic Factors
Differences between Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) subtypes
Table of histological prognostic factors
Prognosis of Renal Cell Carcinoma by stage and histopathological grade
Survival of patients treated by radical nephrectomy or partial radical nephrectomy
4. Clinical Prognostic Factors
5. Molecular Prognostic Factors
6. Prognostic Systems and Nomograms
7. References
Renal Cell Carcinomas (RCC) originating from the renal cortex of the kidney compri ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
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1. Staging
T – Primary Tumor T1/T1a/T1b
T2/T2a/T2b
T3/T3a/T3b/T3c
T4
N – Regional Lymph Nodes
N0
N1
M – Distant Metastasis
M0
M1
Summary Tables
2. Uncertainties in Tumour Node Metastasis (TNM) Classification
3. Pathologic Tumour Node Metastasis Classification (pTNM)
Stage I
Stage II
Stage III
Stage IV
Summary Table
4. Anatomical Classifications
5. References
In both clinical and scientific classification of renal cell carcinoma, it is recommended to use Tumour Node Metastasis (TNM) classification used in almost all cancers today. [1] Tumour Node Met ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
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1. Staging
T – Primary Tumor T1/T1a/T1b
T2/T2a/T2b
T3/T3a/T3b/T3c
T4
N – Regional Lymph Nodes
N0
N1
M – Distant Metastasis
M0
M1
Summary Tables
2. Uncertainties in Tumour Node Metastasis (TNM) Classification
3. Pathologic Tumour Node Metastasis Classification (pTNM)
Stage I
Stage II
Stage III
Stage IV
Summary Table
4. Anatomical Classifications
In both clinical and scientific classification of renal cell carcinoma, it is recommended to use Tumour Node Metastasis (TNM) classification used in almost all cancers today. [86] [1] Tumour Node Metastasis ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
Renal Cell Carcinoma
(RCC) accounts for the majority of renal tumors. The proportion of these tumors
in all kidney tumors is approximately 85% to 90%. Also, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)
is a large cancer title which is divided into many subtypes, and the most
common seen subtype is clear cell carcinoma (ccRCC).
Although the most commonly diagnosed renal tumors are medullary renal tumors, approximately 10-15% of the kidney masses are rare renal tumors, which are tumors that derived from the cortex. [34]
Renal cortical tumors are very rare renal tumors with sporadic and familial types and ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
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1. Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma (ccRCC)
Association with von Hippel Lindau (VHL)
Morphology
Genetic
Prognosis
Survival rates
2. Papillary Cell Renal Carcinoma (pRCC)
Histopathology
Subtypes
Genetic
Morphology
Prognosis
3. Chromophobe Renal Cell Cancer (chRCC)
Histopathology
Grading
Subtypes
Differential diagnosis of chromophobe cell carcinoma and oncocytoma
Genetic
Prognosis
4. Collecting Duct Carcinoma
Histopathology
Genetics
5. Renal Medullary Carcinoma
Clinical manifestations
Histopathology
Genetics
6. Mucinous Tubular and Spindle-Cell Carcinoma
Clinical m ..read more
Kidney Cancer USA
5y ago
1.Symptoms
Many renal masses remain asymptomatic until the late disease stages. More than 50% of RCCs are detected incidentally by non-invasive imaging investigating various non-specific symptoms and other abdominal diseases [89,100]. The classic triad of flank pain, visible haematuria, and palpable abdominal mass is rare (6-10%) and correlates with aggressive histology and advanced disease [41,101].
Paraneoplastic syndromes are found in approximately 30% of patients with symptomatic RCCs [102]. Some symptomatic patients present with symptoms caused by metastatic disease, such as bone pa ..read more