2. What is/What causes Kidney
Cancer?
Kidney cancer is usually defined as any cancer
that is determined to have arisen from the
kidney.
Cancer in the kidneys is usually caused by three
of the following:
Smoking.
Obesity.
High blood pressure.
3. Symptoms of Kidney Cancer.
Common symptoms include:
Blood in the urine.
Pain in the side that does not go away.
A lump/or mass on the side of the abdomen.
Weight loss.
Fever.
Extreme feeling of being tired/poor of health.
4. How is Kidney Cancer
diagnosed?
In order to find out the reasoning behind those
symptoms in the before slide, patients go
through various tests such as:
Urine and Blood tests.
CT [CAT] Scans.
Ultrasounds.
5. Stages of Kidney Cancer
Stage I is an early stage of Stage II is also an early stage
kidney cancer. The tumor of kidney cancer, but the
measures up to 2 3/4 tumor measures more
inches (7 centimeters). It than 2 3/4 inches. The
is no bigger than a tennis cancer cells are found
ball. The cancer cells are only in the kidney.
found only in the kidney.
The tumor has invaded the
adrenal gland or the
layers of fat and fibrous Cancer cells are
tissue that surround the found in more
kidney, but cancer cells than one nearby
have not spread beyond lymph node.
the fibrous tissue. Cancer
cells may be found in one
nearby lymph node.
