Renal Cell Carcinoma

Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) usually happens to guys over 60 years old. RCC frequently manifests asymptomatically, complicating early identification. When symptoms do show up, they can be blood in the urine, pain that doesn't go away in the side or lower back, a lump in the abdomen that can be felt, unexplained weight loss, fever, exhaustion, and elevated blood pressure. The cancer can also create paraneoplastic syndromes, which are conditions that happen because of the cancer. For example, they can make red blood cells grow faster or raise calcium levels.

Risk factors include smoking, being overweight, having high blood pressure, having a family history of the disease, and having specific genetic abnormalities, such as Von Hippel-Lindau disease. Imaging tests and biopsies are often used to get a diagnosis. The stage of the disease will determine the treatment, which may include surgery to take out part or all of the afflicted kidney. Advanced disease may necessitate targeted medicines or immunotherapy. Early diagnosis and treatment are very important because localised RCC has a high survival rate. However, the prognosis gets much worse once the cancer spreads beyond the kidney.