The kidney cancer is a very common cancer in society. It has many causes to why it develops, and there are couple of treatments.
What it is: Kidney cancer is a very common cancer in society. The most known form is the renal cell carcinoma.
How you can get it: Kidney cancer has many causes to why it develops such as your eating habits. You should always be eating healthy at all times. You should always be active with sports and exercise. When in school try to be on the sports team or join your nearby gym or local YMCA. Having a high blood pressure can increase the risk of kidney cancer. Something you can stop that cancer may be caused by hereditary and family history. People that have darker skin and are men sometimes have a higher risk of kidney cancer; which makes me at a risk.
Some medications may affect the hazard of getting kidney cancer (“Risk Factors for Kidney Cancer” pars. 1-15, 17-19). Smoking is one of the main reasons people have developed kidney cancer. Employees that use asbestos have a higher risk of developing kidney cancer because it is a health hazard and dangerous to use. People that may be using asbestos are usually people dealing with textiles, insulation, builders, and automobile mechanics (“Safety and Health pars. 1-2”).
Symptoms: The symptoms of kidney cancer are having blood in urine, low back pain, and lump on belly, fatigue, loss of appetite, rapid loss of weight, fevers and swelling of the ankles and legs. Other warning signs of kidney cancer are having a high blood pressure and being anemic, which means having low blood flowing through the body (“Risk Factors for Kidney Cancer” pars. 1-15, 17-19.). All these facts are indicators of kidney cancer.
Population affected: The biological effects that kidney cancer can have on your body are that the tumor will gradually increase in size and travel to other parts of your body and start affecting other organs. The bigger the size of the tumor the more chance of survival there is.
Treatments: There are a couple of treatments for kidney cancer such as simple nephrectomy, radical nephrectomy, partial nephrectomy, and arterial embolization. Simple nephrectomy is where one whole kidney is completely removed from the body. In radical nephrectomy the surgery removes a whole kidney, some glands, lymph nodes, and tissues around the kidney.
For partial nephrectomy some parts of the kidney is removed. This surgery is usually performed when one kidney is already taken out or severely damaged (Thorpe, Besty and Mackenzie, Walser, 35-95) When the arterial embolization is executed, the artery of which the blood tumor is flowing is blocked to stop any blood flow to the tumor ("Treatments for Kidney Cancer" pars. 1-5.) There are more types of surgery, but these four are the most common.
Prognosis: The cure rate depends what stage you are in of the kidney cancer. The factors are the size, length, and how long has it been active in your body. The average years lost to the reason of kidney cancer is an average of 15.3 years. The average ratio of deaths to incidence is 35%. If the tumor is less than 4 centimeters long then the survival rate is usually 92%, but when the tumors are large tumors survival is 83%; which is still good for a cancer. If the kidney tumor spreads out of the area; but still relatively close the percent will decrease to 60%.
If the tumor travels and gets to the lymph glands the 5-year survival will decrease to 10% and if the tumor is still not stopped and relocates to other organs in the body the 5-year survival maybe lower than 5%. This is why it is important to have surgery on the kidney as soon as possible, so that the tumor would not spread out and makes your survival chance lower.
