Kidney Cancer affects either or both kidneys in men more than in women. Generally, it occurs in either men or women after 45 – 50 years of age. Any tumour in the kidney is considered as malignant, unless proved otherwise.
These kidney tumours are also known as RENAL CELL CARCINOMA.
Nowadays incidence of kidney cancer has increased and similarly they are diagnosed at an early stage due to improvement in technology like USG of abdomen and pelvis, CT scan, MRI of abdomen and pelvis etc.
Due to early diagnosis and subsequent early treatment survival rates from kidney cancer have markedly improved.
Any Kidney cancer / Tumour whether it is benign or cancerous, evolve from a disruption of gene cells one or more in DNA. The genetics cell multiplications are normally under control but when they go out of control, they form a mass of a tissue which is called a Tumour or Cancer.
Causes Of Kidney Cancer
The causes of kidney cancer are not really known. However, the following are considered as Risk Factors: –
#Smoking
#Certain Occupational Hazards
#Coke Oven workers & asbestos workers
#Obesity
Symptoms of Kidney Cancer
General symptoms: high blood pressure, fever, anemia, muscle mass loss, loss of appetite, unexplained weight loss.
#Lump or a mass felt in the kidney or abdomen region
#Dull ache on the side of the tumour
#Blood in urine (haematuria) with or without clots
#Recurrent Fevers and sometimes high Blood Pressure
#Persistent Fatigue
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