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Kidney cancer Information
Kidney cancer is a cancer caused by cancerous renal cells. The two most common kidney cancers are renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) in renal pelvis, whose names respectively indicate where canceration takes place. Different types of kidney cancers have different pathogenesis, and thus different long-term effects too. Meanwhile, early-stage kidney cancer shows no symptoms and patients need to pay more attention.
Kidney cancer symptoms
- Fatigue
- Poor appetite
- Loss of weight
- High fever
- Excessive sweating
- Persistent abdominal pain
Kidney cancer risk factors
- Smoking
- Regular use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Obesity
- Genetic disorder
- Family history of kidney cancer
- Hepatitis B virus infection
- Having received treatment on testicular cancer or cervical cancer
- Renal calculus
Diagnosis
- Blood test
- Urine analysis
- Biopsy
Treatment
Surgical excision, electrotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy.
Reference
- Cancer Research UK. Kidney Cancer, http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/kidney-cancer/symptoms
- Cheungpasitporn, W; Thongprayoon C; O'Corragain OA; Edmonds PJ; Ungprasert P; Kittanamongkolchai W; Erickson SB. The Risk of Kidney Cancer in Patients with Kidney Stones: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. QJM. 9 September 2014
- Cortez, M. Commonly Used Pain Pills Increase Kidney Cancer Risk in Study, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-09-12/commonly-used-pain-pills-increase-kidney-cancer-risk-in-study, 2011
- Mulders PF, Brouwers AH, Hulsbergen-van der Kaa CA, van Lin EN, Osanto S, de Mulder PH. [Guideline 'Renal cell carcinoma']. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. February 2008, 152 (7): 376–80
- NCCN. 腎癌, https://www.nccn.org/patients/guidelines/kidney-chinese/files/assets/common/downloads/files/kidneychinese.pdf
- 大公報, 腎癌早期有五個表現, http://health.takungpao.com.hk/illness/q/2014/0116/2181559.html, 2014年1月16日
