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Monday, October 01, 2007

New treatment of kiney cancer

Kidney cancer is one of the more common cancers that affect the urinary system. more than eighty percentage of all kidney cancer are renal cell carcinoma. Over the past few decades, there appears to be an increasing trend worldwide, Rcc occurs and has a male to female ratio 2 to 1. It is now well established that renal cell carcinoma does not represent a single disease linked to many difference genetic abnormalities.

Cigretter smokeing has been consistenly implicated and cigarette smokers have more than twice the risk of developing RCC. The sign and symptoms are that more than 60% of patients present with gross haematuria ( blood in the sugar ), back pain, abdominal mass or anaemia. Symptoms arising from metastatic disease such as shortness of breath, cough, fits, hradache and bone pain are found in thirty percentage of the patients.

Currently with routine use ultrasound and CT scans, many renal tumors are detected incidentally. Out of the 169 RCC cases operated, as mentioned above, 65% were men and 35% were female.

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