Kidney cancer is 2 times more common in smokers!

Kidney cancer is mostly seen between the ages of 60 and 70 and is two times more in men than women. However, it is known that it occurs three times more often in the patients with high blood pressure and two times more in those who use tobacco products. As are in all types of cancer, a new generation of treatments for kidney cancer offers hope to patients and their relatives. Md. A. Egemen İşgören from Memorial Antalya Hospital, Department of Urology, gave information about kidney cancer and the treatment method.

Patients undergoing dialysis should be more careful.

As are in many other types of cancer, exact cause of kidney cancer is unknown. Kidney cysts and kidney cancers are more commonly seen in the patients who take regular dialysis due to renal failure. The risk of development of kidney cancer is high in the patient who had previously undergone radiation therapy for the purpose of treatment or had been exposed to radiation for another reason. In addition, the risk of kidney cancer increases in steel industry, petroleum, cadmium, lead industry employees and those exposed to asbestos.

 Be careful if there is bleeding in the urine!

Usually, its symptoms are pain in kidney area, bleeding in the urine, or palpable swelling. Small-sized tumors in early stages can usually be detected by chance especially on abdominal ultrasonography or tomography that is performed due to another disease. Especially not very severe pains in lumbar region, bleeding in the urine and swelling in the kidney area are the most common symptoms. If the tumor has spread to organs such as bones, lungs, and brain, due to this spreading, diseases related to cough, bloody sputum, bone pain, and brain involvement may occur. In addition, symptoms such as weakness, loss of appetite, weight loss that occur in all cancers can also emerge in kidney cancer.

 Some risk groups should be careful of kidney cancer!

• Old age
• People who use tobacco and tobacco products
• Those who are prone to obesity or are obese
• Patients with high blood pressure
• Those who have renal failure and take its treatment
• Those who have certain hereditary diseases
• Those exposed to radiation
• Those who have high occupational risk factors

 Those who have nearly 100% chances of recovery in the early stage

No type of cancer causes pain in early stages. Therefore, when such complaints arise, a specialist should definitely be consulted. With early diagnosis and proper treatment, kidney cancer can be completely cured. In kidney cancer, which is caught at an early stage, life duration varies between 70-100%. The most successful treatment option for kidney cancer is surgical treatment. The effectiveness of non-surgical treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy is low in the treatment of kidney cancer. The patient's general health status, size of the mass, type of kidney cancer, whether the cancer has spread, and the patient's expectations from and preferences for treatment are important for designating the treatment method to be applied.

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