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Understanding Kidney Cancer

Source: www.kidneycancervaccine.com
Topic: Kidney
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Sort Desciption: Your doctor has given you this brochure to help answer any additional questions you may have about renal cell carcinoma. Being faced with a possible diagnosis of cancer can be frightening, but learning all you can about the disease may help you ...

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Kidney cancer is an abnormal, uncontrolled growth of cells in the kidney. The most common type is renal cell cancer, which accounts for about 85 percent of all kidney tumors.

Kidneys do many things, including:
* Filter blood
* Produce urine to get rid of the body's waste
* Make chemicals that help control blood pressure
* Produce substances involved in formation of red blood cells
Staging is the process of finding out how far the cancer has spread (or metastasized). It is very important because, to a large extent, your treatment and the outlook for your recovery depend on the stage of your cancer. In general, the lower the number, the less the cancer has spread.

In most cases, the earlier cancer is caught, the better the outlook. This is because when the cancer is in its early phases, it is less likely to have spread to other parts of the body.

It's hard to use statistics to try to figure out your chances of recovery because no two people are alike, and treatments and responses vary greatly. Your doctor is in the best position to talk with you about your outlook.

Surgery (discussed later in the brochure) is the primary treatment for kidney cancer. However, based on the cancer stage, your general health and age, your doctor will develop a treatment plan that best fits your needs using one or a combination of methods.

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