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It represents about 1 to 2% of the adult's cancers. He touches a man in general enters 50 and 60 years, the tobacco addiction is a factor of risk.
..Kidney Cancer The signs of the illness
The revealing signs of a cancer of the kidney, those that worry the patient, are variable: * A hématurie (red urines) is the primordial sign; the patient has bloody urines from time to time; * Of the lumbar pains; * A recent varicocèle; * A syndrome paranéoplasique (fever to the long course, polycythemia, hypercalcemia...); * A metastasis (lungs, bone, brain...); * An arterial hypertension; * An isolated fever, a loss of weight, an anemia.
More and more often, the cancers of the kidney are discovered in a fortuitous way thanks to use increased of the scan and the scanner.
..Kidney Cancer Exams and complementary analyses
The speed of sedimentation is raised very.
The intravenous urographie (UIV) shows the picture of the tumor that compresses, distort, disorientate or invades the excretory cavities.
The scan confirms that the lesion is full and heterogeneous.
The scanner gives precise pictures.
Once the diagnosis of cancer of the kidney suspected, a balance préopératoire specifies the extension of the tumor. This extension is: * Local: judged on the fixity of the tumor; * Venous: edema, varicocèle, protéinurie, cavographie... * Métastatique: lungs, liver, skeleton... * The evolutivity is judged on: the general state; the speed of sedimentation.
..Kidney Cancer Treatment
The large ablation of the kidney (widened total néphrectomie) with ablation of the regional ganglia, give a luck of recovery to the patient in case of localized tumor.
The surgical treatment can be efficient in case of tumorous invasion of the renal and same vein of the vein hollows lower.
The interleukine 2 is proposed in the shapes with metastases.
The Kidney Cancer is radio and resistant chimio.
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